[Asterisk-Users] "Received packet with bad UDP checksum" - whats the real problem?

[Steve Underwood]

Bryan Field-Elliot wrote:

> We have a customer trying to dial through our server, and our server 
> is throwing tons of these log messages:
>
> Jul 27 14:21:02 NOTICE[29210]: rtp.c:431 ast_rtp_read: RTP: Received 
> packet with bad UDP checksum
>
> Is it pretty certain, that these are caused by a bad or misconfigured 
> router along the path, or something else network-related? As opposed 
> to the SIP hardware itself? The SIP ATA is the same model in use by 
> many of our other customers, without any problems.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Bryan

This report from Asterisk is bogus. There might be a checksum error. 
Checksum errors will cause the condition which causes that report. 
However, many other perfectly normal things generate that report too. It 
is useless information.

Regards,
Steve