sngrep

sngrep is a tool for displaying SIP calls message flows from terminal.

It supports live capture to display realtime SIP packets and can also be used as PCAP viewer.

Some screenshots of sngrep

Installing

Binaries

• Debian / Ubuntu
• CentOS / RedHat / Fedora
• Alpine Linux
• Gentoo
• Arch
• OSX
• OpenWRT/LEDE

Building from sources

Prerequisites

• libncurses5 - for UI, windows, panels.
• libpcap - for capturing packets.
• libssl - (optional) for TLS transport decrypt using OpenSSL and libcrypt
• gnutls - (optional) for TLS transport decrypt using GnuTLS and libgcrypt
• libncursesw5 - (optional) for UI, windows, panels (wide-character support)
• libpcre - (optional) for Perl Compatible regular expressions
• zlib - (optional) for gzip compressed pcap files

On most systems the commands to build will be the standard autotools procedure:

./bootstrap.sh
./configure
make
make install (as root)

You can pass following flags to ./configure to enable some features

configure flag	Feature
--with-openssl	Adds OpenSSL support to parse TLS captured messages (req. libssl)
--with-gnutls	Adds GnuTLS support to parse TLS captured messages (req. gnutls)
--with-pcre	Adds Perl Compatible regular expressions support in regexp fields
--with-zlib	Enable zlib to support gzip compressed pcap files
--enable-unicode	Adds Ncurses UTF-8/Unicode support (req. libncursesw5)
--enable-ipv6	Enable IPv6 packet capture support.
--enable-eep	Enable EEP packet send/receive support.

Instead of using autotools, sngrep could be build with CMake, e.g.:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake [<options>] ..
make
make install (as root)

You can pass following options to cmake to enable some features

CMake option	Feature
-D WITH_OPENSSL=ON	Adds OpenSSL support to parse TLS captured messages (req. libssl)
-D WITH_GNUTLS=ON	Adds GnuTLS support to parse TLS captured messages (req. gnutls)
-D WITH_PCRE=ON	Adds Perl Compatible regular expressions support in regexp fields
-D WITH_ZLIB=ON	Enable zlib to support gzip compressed pcap files
-D WITH_UNICODE=ON	Adds Ncurses UTF-8/Unicode support (req. libncursesw5)
-D USE_IPV6=ON	Enable IPv6 packet capture support
-D USE_EEP=ON	Enable EEP packet send/receive support
-D CPACK_GENERATOR=DEB	make package builds a Debian package
-D CPACK_GENERATOR=RPM	make package builds a RPM package

You can find detailed instructions for some distributions on wiki.

Usage

See --help for a list of available flags and their syntax

For example, sngrep can be used to view SIP packets from a pcap file, also applying filters

sngrep -I file.pcap host 192.168.1.1 and port 5060

or live capturing, saving packets to a new file

sngrep -d eth0 -O save.pcap port 5060 and udp

Configuration

You can configure some options using sngreprc file

Frequent Asked Questions

Any feedback, request or question are welcomed at #sngrep channel at irc.libera.chat

See FAQ on Github Wiki

License

sngrep - SIP Messages flow viewer
Copyright (C) 2013-2018 Irontec S.L.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give
permission to link the code of portions of this program with the
OpenSSL library under certain conditions as described in each
individual source file, and distribute linked combinations
including the two.
You must obey the GNU General Public License in all respects
for all of the code used other than OpenSSL.  If you modify
file(s) with this exception, you may extend this exception to your
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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