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

[Dinesh Nair]

On 02/02/06 00:06 Olle E Johansson said the following:
> Damon Estep wrote:
>> Not really enough sample points to determine if the network will support
>> RTP and no provision for jitter measurements and packet loss.
>>
>> I really like the statistics on the cheap Linksys ATAs! - latency,
>> jitter, packet loss during an actual call.
> 
> 
> For a newbie, it's a start, but you are absolutely right. The work we 
> are doing with RTCP support will help in this, measuring quality per 

i've usually just used ethereal to capture packets between asterisk and the 
SIP phones. the box running ethereal is plugged into the ethernet switch's 
monitor port, obviously. works like a charm.

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