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Published inJul 2016
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Darren Schreiber
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Darren Schreiber

Darren Schreiber is the CEO and Co-founder of 2600 Hz. He began working heavily in open source voice with the FreeSWITCH project, where he engaged with Brian, Mike, and Anthony. His projects have since evolved into two enterprise VoIP platforms that allow a multitude of development of voice, SMS, and video applications to be delivered to customers.He has 15 years of voice and IT experience including developing multiple enterprise SaaS infrastructures for hosting and remotely managing IT, voice, and e-commerce services. He is a guest lecturer at major universities on VoIP technology and leads paid international VoIP trainings. As a serious telephony enthusiast since a young age, he has worked extensively with VoIP technologies. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Computer Science and Business Management.He is also a co-author of FreeSWITCH Cookbook, Packt Publishing.
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SIP, RTP, SDP, RTCP, OH MY!


To troubleshoot VoIP you need to understand at least a little bit of SIP and related protocols. That's the sad truth. You will get nothing from packet-capture and analysis if you don't understand the basics of the protocols.

You can certainly send the file containing the captured packets to someone who's more SIP conversant. If you want to take that option, read the following section about the tools you can use to generate a pcap file with all the relevant info.

The other option is to learn it yourself before problems occur, using sipgrep and sngrep (they make for a colorful, easy and complete toolset) to visualize protocol packets, and one of the many books/tutorials out there as reference. Do test calls and watch what happens. You'll see that there are regularities and meanings, and after a while you'll know most patterns and what to look for. You'll be ready when the time comes.

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Published in: Jul 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781784398880

Authors (8)

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Darren Schreiber

Darren Schreiber is the CEO and Co-founder of 2600 Hz. He began working heavily in open source voice with the FreeSWITCH project, where he engaged with Brian, Mike, and Anthony. His projects have since evolved into two enterprise VoIP platforms that allow a multitude of development of voice, SMS, and video applications to be delivered to customers.He has 15 years of voice and IT experience including developing multiple enterprise SaaS infrastructures for hosting and remotely managing IT, voice, and e-commerce services. He is a guest lecturer at major universities on VoIP technology and leads paid international VoIP trainings. As a serious telephony enthusiast since a young age, he has worked extensively with VoIP technologies. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Computer Science and Business Management.He is also a co-author of FreeSWITCH Cookbook, Packt Publishing.
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