[asterisk-users] How is a ping test delay "ms" different from status in Asterisk "sip show peers"?

[Robert-iPhone]

Use smokeping w/ SipSak module

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On Aug 20, 2011, at 2:24 PM, Bruce B <bruceb444 at gmail.com> wrote:

> What's the point of having the metrics then? They are inaccurate and deceiving. If there is no benefit to showing the real metrics then why not change it to Status = Reachable than showing a number?
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> Thanks,
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> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com> wrote:
> Also, Asterisk the userspace process  processes OPTIONS requests more slowly - and variably - than an OS network stack processes an ICMP echo request.
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> On Aug 20, 2011, at 1:55 PM, Steve Edwards <asterisk.org at sedwards.com> wrote:
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> > On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Bruce B wrote:
> >
> >> Pinging a phone set I get 0.529 ms round trip delay. Running "sip show peers" in Asterisk CLI I see anywhere from 5 milli seconds to 280 ms. How are both of these different and why are they so different? Is the latter based on SIP packets return?
> >> I have a paging device that shows close to 280 ms which is not right but at ping it's 0.5 ms.
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> > Some routers consider responding to pings to be a 'low priority' request.
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