Manpage of SIGTRAN

SIGTRAN

Section: OpenSS7 STREAMS SIGTRAN Devices (4)
Updated: 2008-10-31
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NAME

SIGTRAN - OpenSS7 Signalling Transport (SIGTRAN) Devices

SYNOPSIS

int sigtran_stream = open(sigtran_device, flags);

DESCRIPTION

SS7 Devices

SIGTRAN[1]
provides the following SS7 pseudo-device drivers:

bua(4): SS7 BICC User Adaptation Layer (BUA) protocol layer transporting and distributing the services provided by bicc(4) and providing an IO Control interface, lmi_ioctl(4), for BUA-specific management, bua_ioctl(4).
isua(4): SS7 ISUP User Adaptation Layer (ISUA)[2] protocol layer transporting and distributing the services provided by isup(4) and providing an IO Control interface, lmi_ioctl(4), for ISUA-specific management, isua_ioctl(4).
tua(4): SS7 TCAP User Adaptation Layer (TUA)[3] protocol layer transporting and distributing the services provided by tcap(4) and providing an IO Control interface, lmi_ioctl(4), for TUA-specific management, tua_ioctl(4).
sua(4): SS7 SCCP User Adaptation Layer (SUA)[4] protocol layer transporting and distributing the services provided by sccp(4) and providing an IO Control interface, lmi_ioctl(4), for SUA-specific management, sua_ioctl(4).
m3ua(4): SS7 MTP3 User Adaptation Layer (M3UA)[5..7] protocol layer transporting and distributing the services provided by mtp(4) and providing an IO Control interface, lmi_ioctl(4), for M3UA-specific management, m3ua_ioctl(4).
m2ua(4): SS7 MTP2 User Adaptation Layer (M2UA)[8, 9] protocol layer transporting and distributing the services provided by sl(4) and providing an IO Control interface, lmi_ioctl(4), for M2UA-specific management, m2ua_ioctl(4).

SS7 Modules

SIGTRAN provides the following SS7 modules:

m2pa(4): SS7 MTP2 User Peer-to-Peer Adaptation Layer (M2PA)[10]

ISDN Devices

SIGTRAN provides the following ISDN pseudo-device drivers:

iua(4): ISDN Q.921 User Adaptation Layer (IUA)[11] protocol layer transporting and distributing the services provided by dl(4), and providing an IO Control Interface, lmi_ioctl(4), for IUA-specific management, iua_ioctl(4).
dua(4): DPNSS/DASS 2 Extentions to the IUA Protocol (DUA)[12] protocol layer transporting and distributing the services provided by dua(4), and providing an IO Control Itnerface, lmi_ioctl(4), for DUA-specific management, dua_ioctl(4).
v5ua(4): V5 User Adaptation Layer (V5UA)[13] protocol layer transporting and distributing the services provided by v5(4), and providing an IO Control Interface, lmi_ioctl(4), for V5UA-specific management, v5ua_ioctl(4).
gr303ua(4): GR-303 User Adaptation Layer (GR303UA)[14] protocol layer transporting and distributing the services provided by gr303(4), and providing an IO Control Interface, lmi_ioctl(4), for GR303UA-specific management, gr303ua_ioctl(4).

DEVICES

/dev/bua, /dev/isua, /dev/tua, /dev/tua-tpi-cl, /dev/tua-tpi-co, /dev/sua, /dev/sua-npi, /dev/sua-tpi-cl, /dev/sua-tpi-co, /dev/m3ua, /dev/m3ua-npi, /dev/m3ua-tpi-cl, /dev/m3ua-tpi-co, /dev/m2ua, /dev/m2ua-cdi, /dev/m2ua-dlpi, /dev/iua, /dev/v5ua, /dev/gr303ua.

VERSIONS

This manpage was updated 2008-10-31 for sigtran release 0.9.2.4.

Most of the devices and modules listed here do not appear until strss7-0.8.4.

m2pa(4) first appeared in strss7-0.8.2.

REFERENCES

[1]: RFC 2719, Framework Architecture for Signaling Transport, October 1999, Lyndon Ong, ed., The Internet Society. <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2719.txt>
[2]: draft-bidulock-sigtran-isua-00.txt, SS7 ISUP-User Adaptation Layer (ISUA), January 5, 2003, Brian Bidulock, ed., Internet Engineering Task Force --- Signalling Transport Working Group. Work In Progress. (Expired) <http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-bidulock-sigtran-isua-00.txt>
[3]: draft-bidulock-sigtran-tua-01.txt, SS7 TCAP-User Adaptation Layer (TUA), January 2, 2003, Brian Bidulock, ed., Internet Engineering Task Force --- Signalling Transport Working Group. Work In Progress. (Expired) <http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-bidulock-sigtran-tua-01.txt>
[4]: RFC 3868, Signalling Connection Control Part User Adaptation Layer (SUA), October 2004, John Loughney, ed., The Internet Society. <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3868.txt>
[5]: draft-ietf-sigtran-rfc3332bis-05.txt, Signaling System 7 (SS7) Message Transfer Part 3 (MTP3)-User Adaptation Layer (M3UA), October 2005, Javier Pastor, ed., Internet Engineering Task Force --- Signalling Transport Working Group. Work In Progress <http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-sigtran-rfc3332bis-05.txt>
[6]: ESTI TS 102 142-V1.1.1 (2003-05), Services and Protocols for Advanced Networks (SPAN) --- MTP/SCCP/SSCOP and SIGTRAN (Transport of SS7 over IP) --- Message transfer part 3 User Adaptation layer (M3UA), May 2003, (Sophia Antipolis, Valbonne), ETSI, European Telecommunications Standards Institute. [DTS/SPAN-130263] (Endorsement of RFC 3332 (2002), modified) <http://www.etsi.org/>
[7]: RFC 4666, Signaling System 7 (SS7) Message Transfer Part 3 (MTP3) --- User Adaptation Layer (M3UA), September 2006, K. Morneault, J. Pastor-Balbas, (eds), The Internet Society. <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4666.txt>
[8]: RFC 3331, Signaling System 7 (SS7) Message Transfer Part 2 (MTP2) --- User Adaptation Layer, September 2002, Ken Morneault, ed., The Internet Society. <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3331.txt>
[9]: ETSI TS 102 141-V1.1.1 (2003-05), Services and Protocols for Advanced Networks (SPAN) --- MTP/SCCP/SSCOP and SIGTRAN (Transport of SS7 over IP) --- Message transfer part 2 User Adaptation layer (M2UA), May 2003, (Sophia Antipolis, Valbonne), ETSI, European Telecommunications Standards Institute. [DTS/SPAN-130262] (Endorsement of RFC 3331 (2002), modified) <http://www.etsi.org/>
[10]: RFC 4165, Signaling System 7 (SS7) Message Transfer Part 2 (MTP2)-User Peer-to-Peer Adaptation Layer (M2PA), September 2005, Tom George, ed., The Internet Society. (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4165.txt>
[11]: RFC 4233, Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) Q.921-User Adaptation Layer, January 2006, Ken Morneault, ed., The Internet Society. (Obsoletes RFC 3057) <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4233.txt>
[12]: RFC 4129, Digital Private Network Signaling System (DPNSS)/Digital Access Signaling System 2 (DASS 2) Extensions to the IUA Protocol, August 2005, Ranjith Mukundan, ed., The Internet Society. (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4129.txt>
[13]: RFC 3807, V5.2-User Adaption Layer (V5UA), June 2004, E. Weilandt, N. Khanchandani and S. Rao, The Internet Society. (Updates RFC 3057) <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3807.txt>
[14]: draft-ietf-sigtran-gr303ua-00.txt, GR-303 extensions to the IUA Protocol, December 2002, R. Mukundan, K. Morneault, Internet Engineering Task Force --- Signalling Transport Working Group. Work In Progress. (Expired) <http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-sigtran-gr303ua-00.txt>