[Asterisk-Users] UDP Fragmentation Problem

Andrew Kohlsmith akohlsmith-asterisk at benshaw.com
Sun Oct 31 20:17:15 MST 2004


On October 31, 2004 05:36 pm, Bastian Schern wrote:
> I've got no success to get a friend in Bogota (Colombia) connected to my
> Asterisk. He has got a ISDN Internet connection and the UDP packets will
> be fragmented. It seems that the MTU of this connection is round about
> 400 to 500 Bytes. Therefore most UDP-SIP packages are fragmented.
> Is Asterisk not able to handle fragmented UDP packages?
> Is it possible to use SIP over TCP with X-Lite?
> Or has somebody another hint for me?

As far as I am aware there is no such thing as a fragmented UDP packet; each 
packet is sent out on its own, there is no coherency between UDP packets like 
there is with TCP packets.

I could be very wrong here, it's been a late night with the kids.  :-)

-A.



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