[Asterisk-Dev] IAX2 trunk really should send timestamps as part of iax2_meta_trunk_entry..

[Nick Bachmann]

Matt Riddell wrote:

> Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
>
>> On January 20, 2005 07:07 pm, Steve Kann wrote:
>>
>>> 2) Put the timestamps at the end of the frame:
>>>     This is easy to send, but then the receiver needs to walk through
>>> all the meta entries to the end, to see _if_ there's timestamps there,
>>> and then read them, before processing all the meta entries..
>>
>> My personal opinion is that #2 is better.  The receiver would copy 
>> the trunk frame's "master" timestamp to each demuxed channel and 
>> then, upon finding the meta entry could copy the "per channel" 
>> timestamp from the meta entry to the appropriate channel's 
>> timestamp.  That should not be any different from the normal 
>> operation unless a meta entry is detected.
>
> Wouldn't this reduce the badwidth savings offered by a trunked 
> connection?

By a few bytes per channel in the trunk... a small price to pay for the 
benefits, if I'm understanding the implications correctly...

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