Checking a port is in use
eg udp/5060
lsof -i :5060
asterisk 7032 asterisk 9u IPv4 85198 UDP *:sip
Testing UDP port connections using netcat
nc -vzu 67.216.35.162 5060
And do a tcpdump on the target
tcpdump -A -s 65000 -i eth0 udp