[Asterisk-Users] (newby) Is PING a good indicator of latency?

Cosmin Prund cosmin at adicomsoft.ro
Wed Feb 1 06:12:50 MST 2006


I'm pritty sure VoIP traffic would not be favored in any way along the route
from my first * to my second *, but ICMP might be boosted a bit by my ISP to
look better :-)

Thanks

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Dmitry Ivanov
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 2:27 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] (newby) Is PING a good indicator of latency?
> 
> On Wednesday 01 February 2006 14:12, Cosmin Prund wrote:
> > As the subject line says: Is PING a good indicator of network
> > latency? If not, how can I measure latency?
> 
> Only if ICMP Echo has the same Class of Service (DSCP, 802.1p,
> priority/class in routers/shapers etc.) as VoIP traffic across the
> network.
> 
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