[asterisk-users] Muliticast not connecting

[Eric Wieling]

On 10/13/22 13:25, Joshua C. Colp wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 2:16 PM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jerry.geis at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I have a simple dialplan with asterisk 18.14.0
> 
>     exten => 141,1,Answer
>     exten => 141,n,Noop(MC)
>     exten => 141,n,Playback(beep)
>     exten => 141,n,Dial(MulticastRTP/basic/239.168.4.90:30410//t(15)
>     <http://239.168.4.90:30410//t(15)>)
>     exten => 141,n,Hangup
> 
>     Most times this works just fine ... Once in a while the person hears
>     the beep - but nothing connects on the multicast.
> 
>     What might this be? How can I tell what is happening and why it does
>     not connect?
> 
>     is it valid to put :
>     exten => 141,n,Dial(MulticastRTP/basic/239.168.4.90:30410//t(15)
>     <http://239.168.4.90:30410//t(15)>)
>     exten => 141,n,Dial(MulticastRTP/basic/239.168.4.90:30410//t(15)
>     <http://239.168.4.90:30410//t(15)>)
> 
>     So if the first one doesnt connect perhaps the second one will ???
>     Thanks
> 
> 
> Multicast doesn't connect. There is no session. RTP is thrown out onto 
> the network using multicast, and then devices pick it up. Asterisk has 
> no idea what (if anything) is receiving it. You'd want to do a packet 
> capture to see what is being multicast.
> 

Does this mean things like DIALSTATUS won't work as expected?

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