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.