Measurement of jitter and delay using Wireshark

Jitter and delay are characteristics that can significantly influence various network applications. To monitor jitter and delay on a communication line, you can use simple or graphical ping tools that will show you the line characteristics. Wireshark, on the other hand, does not measure the end-to-end delay but the influence that it has on the network traffic, the interframe delay, and how it influences applications.

In this recipe, we will see how to use Wireshark tools to monitor these parameters, and in the next recipe we will see how to find out problems caused by parameters.

Getting ready

To monitor delay on a communication line, first use the ping command to get a feel for the line, and then configure the port mirror to the port you want to monitor.

How to do it...

To monitor interframe delay, follow these steps:

1. From Statistics, select IO Graphs.
2. To monitor the time between frames in a specific stream of data, follow these steps:
   1. Click on a...