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More info?)
pls see my question below
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:30:54 GMT, "Martin E. Zulliger"
<exe@kibitech.com> wrote:
>Yeah, that is sadly something that happens with VoIP. Sometimes someone
>is playing with the routing tables and all your net goes down.
>
>At my co we're looking for ways to make VoIP service as redundant as
>possible, playing with several proxies and DNSs, but the nature of VoIP
>make it difficult to achive real redundancy. For example if your net
>goes down, your clients may be able to place new calls using a secondary
>proxy but many of the calls which were in progress on the first proxy
>will be interrupted. An alternative is IPV6 but we're still testing that
>one.
>
>Capacity in VoIP is kinda a synomym of bandwidth, if you have bandwidth,
>you have (almost) all you need, since the hardware requeriments are
>usually minimum (well unless you're doing DSP for audio compressing or
>something like that).
>
>Anyway to work in VoIP is really fun, and it is obviously the future of
>the voice communications over the world.
>
>We're going to release to the OSS community something we think will be
>useful to a lot of VoIP enthusiasts (like us); a way to bring VoIP to
>high level programming languages like Java and Python using XML (we're
>already using it for routing our traffic).
>
>Well its enough of my philosophy, Im sure Im becoming boring
>
>Martin
>
>cjtwantstoknow@yahoo.com wrote:
>> Thanks! That's exactly what I did with Ethereal. Then I ran
>> pingplotter to determine where packets were being dropped. It turned
>> out that there were (and still are) problems at Vonage itself, along
>> with a network hop hosted by Global Crossing in NY.
>>
Hey Chris, or anyone else who wants to answer...Does the Linksys 4
port router (I use one) permit some kind of port-monitor? Some
router/ switch manufacturers might use a different name for it...but,
what I'm asking is: how do u setup Etherreal to "bridge" the port you
want to monitor? I remember one of the Nortel switches allowed you to
specify what port you want to monitor, and all traffic on that port in
both directions [I think] got fwd'd to your port (that PC is connected
to).
Zeng
>> It seems that Vonage needs more points-of-presence for proxy servers on
>> the Internet. VOIP is great, as long as there's enough capacity -
>> apparently not the case with Vonage.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> Martin E. Zulliger wrote:
>>
>>>Let's see, Chris, you're talkin about to what IP adress your gateway
>>>sends signalling messages and RTP data when you're making a call thru
>>>Vonage?
>>>
>>>I'm not a Vonage user though I know they use SIP, so all you have to do
>>>is to sniff the packets that go out from your gateway through the port
>>>5060 each time you place a call.
>>>
>>>They may use another port though its not likely, if you dont see
>>>anything, simply sniff all the UDP traffic coming and going through your
>>>gateway.
>>>
>>>One last thing, the gateway will probably not send nor receive anything
>>>unless you place a call (well it may send REGISTER messages but those
>>>are every several mins) so while running the sniffer, place a call to
>>>make it send something.
>>>
>>>I hope this is useful!
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>Martin
>>>
>>>
>>>Robert C. Martin wrote:
>>>
>>>>If your using the Linksys RT31P2-VD the ip address of the router is
>>>>192.168.15.1.
>>>>
>>>><cjtwantstoknow@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>>>news:1125393270.353180.168310@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I'd like to monitor Internet traffic to and from the address that
>>>>>Vonage uses to communicate with my Vonage device.
>>>>>What address do they talk to? Can I look into my RT31p2 and figure
>>>>>this out?
>>>>>
>>>>>Chris
>>>>>cjtwantstoknow
>>>>>
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