Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Analyzing Ekiga TCP/IP packets

[Irving Ruan <irving zeroresistance net>]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Eugen Dedu
<Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>wrote:

> Irving Ruan wrote:
> > Hello ekiga devs,
> >
> > I am currently attempting to try and test video/audio throughput, delay,
> > etc. with Ekiga softphone via a two person conference. Are there any
> > programs out there that will allow me to analyze network traffic that's
> > specific to Ekiga's utilization of resources? Or, is there a way to
> better
> > "hook" the network packets while running Ekiga, say, from the command
> line
> > via some tool?
>
> Well, I do not think there is such a program, but you have two
> possibilities:
>
> - use wireshark and filter messages from and to your computer
>
> - or use ekiga -d 4 2>blahblah, and afterwards you look into this
> blahblah file, which contain SIP packets (not audio/video packets) and
> other information.  If you use the program at
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/ekiga/plain/src/ekiga-debug-analyser, you
> can remove the "other information" to see only SIP packets.
>

Eugen,

Thanks for the help. Is there an advantage to using Wireshark over the
command-line output option?