>Michael Lum wrote:
I> will add AT_SS7PC.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions for PC formatting
?
>
>
>From the packet-mtp3.c dissector I will take the
following:
>
>ANSI/CHINESE ITU x-y-z where each of x, y and z
are 8 bit values.
>
>
I>TU MTP3 Q.704 does not seem to indicate a format
for the PC other
>than being a 14 bit value. However, I have
seen it represented as
>a-b-c where a and c are 3 bits and b is 8 bits.
>
>
>Our engineers prefer the 14 or 24 bit decimal
value as opposed to
>any formatting because then there is no ambiguity
about the value.
>
>I have also seen:
>
>
> 8.8.8 for
24-bit point codes
> 3-8-3 for
14-bit
>
>I.e. the '.' versus '-' was supposed to indicate
24 versus 14 bit.
>
>Anybody else have input ?
>
>I have a fairly strong preference for the "8-8-8"
for ANSI PC's and a similar--but less strong--preference for Chinese ITU. (In
fact I'd like to, at some point, find a way for M3UA to display its point codes
like this
> instead of just decimal.)
>
>I've also contemplated adding a way to display ITU
PCs as 3-8-3 so it would be cool if
this were available as a preference.
I’d prefere the ITU PC as a decimal number
perhaps with the Network indicator ( NI ) in front as the point code is a plain
number and this is how it’s normaly presented in the exchanges GUI:s.
e.g in a national network NI=2 it would look like PC 2-382.
Best regards
Anders Broman
