[asterisk-users] tired of "midget packet received" warnings

[Paul Hales]

Rob Hillis wrote:
> Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 08:42:52AM -0600, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Your monitoring app is not sending valid IAX2 packets to the server. If
>>> it was sending a true IAX2 POKE, it would be a valid packet and wouldn't
>>> generate this warning.
>>>     
>>>       
>> Could asterisk at least _not_ report this harmless, below-warning event
>> when using a zero-verbose (asterisk -r) level? That would be nice and
>> logical.
>>   
>>     
>
> Actually, I would have said that corrupt/bad IAX packsets *should* be 
> reported and are *not* harmless.  They're harmless in your instance 
> because your monitoring application isn't functioning properly, but to 
> anyone else they're likely to indicate either (a) a hacking attempt or 
> (b) a fairly serious network problem.
>
> How about you fix your monitoring application to send a correct IAX2 
> POKE request?
>
>   
Personally, I just like reading the word 'midget' . It makes me smile.

PaulH