[Asterisk-Users] monitoring packet loss?

Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk roy at karlsbakk.net
Fri Jan 21 09:44:00 MST 2005


>> Is it possible to somehow monitor/log packet loss and/or jitter in 
>> RTP? I want to know how things look if someone complains about audio.
>
> ethereal can do some of this for rtp, I think. At the very least, if 
> the endpoint supports RTCP (most do, except for asterisk), it can show 
> you the contents of the RTCP RRs, which should contain this 
> information.
>
> Getting this stuff into asterisk would be in bug 2532, bug 2863, and 
> bug 3236. [and not just getting stats, but actually improving quality 
> under these conditions].

Can't use ethereal for realtime monitoring, though. Too heavy. This 
should be in rtp.c and possibly reporting to the manager or at least 
logging the stuff (to ODBC?)

roy




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