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

[Alex Balashov]

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:

> On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Bruce B wrote:
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>> 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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