[Asterisk-Dev] Uncommon callback

Paul digium-list at 9ux.com
Mon May 23 09:18:06 MST 2005


Steve Underwood wrote:

> David Woodhouse wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 15:05 -0400, SteveK wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> And you don't really want to tunnel VoIP at all over TCP if  you can 
>>> avoid it, because if you drop a couple of packets, you end up
>>> with a lot of latency.  Same goes for PPP over SSH, for the same
>>> reason.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Indeed. I keep intending to play with VoIP over ICMP echo packets,
>> partly because the muppets in my employer's IS department have seen fit
>> to block all outgoing UDP connections, but ICMP still works.
>> But some ISPs' routers will actually prioritise ICMP in order to do well
>> in latency tests, so VoIP over ICMP might actually do better than VoIP
>> over UDP :)
>>  
>>
> The tendency for people to block ICMP completely might work against 
> that :-)
>
> Steve

Why don't we pool our funds and just buy the whole internet? :)




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