What does your Packet Capture say?
Anshul Kumar, Gagan Raj Gupta, Sunny Kumar, Ankita Sahu, Apu Chakraborty · 2024
Network engineers traditionally use Wireshark to capture and analyze packets and perform various analyses, such as identifying network issues, analyzing network protocols, ensuring network security, etc. With evolving network standards such as 5G/6G for Telecom, packet captures are becoming bigger and more complex (number of protocols, message types, etc.). Thus, there is a need for developing conversational agent to analyse packet traces and diagnose issues based on standard specification such as 3GPP. Current Chatbot interfaces such as ChatGPT don’t directly support feature where one can directly upload their PCAP files for packet capture analysis but supports features like uploading PDFs and images. Here, we have developed a tool which summarizes network activity through statistics and visualization. The conversational agent provides an overview of the capture and identifies various failures. Furthermore, it allows the user to focus on a subset of problematic packets for deep analysis such as diagnosis and root cause analysis. The demo video is available here 1.