Sorry if this a double post... I swear I submitted this already but I didn't see it...oh well.

Can anyone tell me:

a) What DURATION of 100% packet loss MIGHT drop VOIP calls?

b) What DURATION of 100% packet loss WILL drop VOIP calls?

What exactly am I talking about:

I recently changed some VOIP hardware and found occurances of dropped calls. PP is set to ping at .5 second intervals. Out of 1000's of pings I spotted a couple of drops at the final destination lasting 500ms (1/2 second) to 1500ms (1.5 seconds.) These corresponded down to the second to some of the reported times of dropped calls. Before you ask, there is nothing interesting happening right before these drops... ie...no other loss and no high latency.

As far as I can tell the connection is excellent with 0% PL 99.x% of the time with the very occasional hiccup as above. I don't think the connection characteristics have changed so it would make sense that something is flaky with the different hardware. I did find one cause of the packet loss being at my BSD router itself... I had 2 X NICs sharing one IRQ which is known to cause occasional interface problems but that's besides the point.


THANKS!