[Asterisk-Users] Huge SIP traffic!!

[John Todd]

>Hi,
>
>Has somthing radical happened to the way sip traffic is handled??
>
>I was just doing some testing and where G.711 used to use about 
>84kb/s of bandwith its now using between 150kb/s and 190kb/s.. The 
>lowest I could get it to in the Snom was 160kb/s and 75 packets per 
>second which was by setting the packet size to 40ms (was 20ms) in 
>the Snom codec setup..
>
>I am running a CVS version from about a month ago so I will update 
>in the morning and see if it gets back to normal but it might be 
>worth while to test you systems and make sure you are not hammering 
>your bandwidth without knowing it..
>
>Later..

I'll put $.10 on a bad tcpdump or tethereal filter during your 
traffic measurement.  You're looking at both transmit and receive, 
instead of just one or the other, I'll wager, since 2x~84 = ~170, 
which is the traffic volume you describe.

JT