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I use tcpdump continuously to analyse multiple RTP feeds coming in to our edge network. Found all sorts of issues with it, including packet reordering in Cisco
by isostatic 8y ago
I use tcpdump continuously to analyse multiple RTP feeds coming in to our edge network. Found all sorts of issues with it, including packet reordering in Cisco and mikrotik routers (shouldn't be a problem with rtp - but tell that to ateme decoders), actual packet loss on juniper srx, and of course minor outages on international and even local links on the order of 100-200ms of loss.
Packet stream is dumped into some perl which keeps across the sequence number looking for out of sequence packets, summarise output every second into an elastic stack. Also have it comparing multiple streams for dual streaming and comparing skew.
Ironically I rarely use tcpdump to look at tcp packets - about the only interesting thing to me there is the SYN packets to see if the packet is getting through the firewall!
- emj 8y agoAny links to something similar, sounds really interesting. BTW I really recommend unbuffer from expect, if you are using tcpdump and pipes.