[Asterisk-Users] Maximum tollerable lag/jitter for IAX2 w/ojitterbuffer enabled?

Eric Wieling eric at fnords.org
Tue Sep 7 17:40:44 MST 2004


On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 18:39, Chris Shaw wrote:

> If you can reproduce it, this smells like a bug... IAX runs over TCP and TCP
> doesn't just disconnect sockets unless it recieves a RESET or a FINISHED or
> there's a timeout (usually like 5 minutes or more depending on your TCP/IP
> stack). Needless to say that to disconnect a TCP connection, that would have
> to be one hell of a lag spike... * must be actively disconnecting the
> connection....

Asterisk never ever uses TCP for IAX or IAX2.  It's ALWAYS UDP.  I don't
believe Asterisk supports SIP over TCP either.  Heck, the manager port
is the only thing that uses TCP that I know of with Asterisk.

--Eric
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