I have never used it myself, but I have heard that MGEN is an excellent
tool for testing mcast.
http://manimac.itd.nrl.navy.mil/MGEN/
-Lenny
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Jared Mauch wrote:
*> One other thing is to
*>pull up this url:
*>
*>http://www.multicasttech.com/mt/
*>
*> That should help you get an idea
*>of if you are connected to the rest of
*>the multicast enabled internet.
*>
*> - jared
*>
*>On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 12:00:01PM -0600, Jeff Bartig wrote:
*>> On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 06:52:37PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
*>> > Hi,
*>> >
*>> > On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 11:50:09AM -0500, Jared Mauch wrote:
*>> > > You can either a) announce a session in sdr and ask others if they
*>> > > see it and can get your content. b) set up a multicast beacon. c) set up
*>> > > a static-join for a group and see if you get traffic.
*>> >
*>> > What is a "multicast beacon"?
*>>
*>> Gert,
*>>
*>> See http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Beacon/
*>>
*>> You can set up a beacon server (Perl or Java) and then have clients
*>> (Java) scattered around the network. The clients test multicast
*>> connectivity between each other and the server presents this data
*>> to you in a nice table, so it is easy to see where problems might
*>> exist.
*>>
*>> Jeff
*>>
*>> --
*>> Jeff Bartig | University of Wisconsin - Madison
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*>> Work Phone: (608) 262-8336 | Network Engineering Technology
*>> E-Mail: jeffb@doit.wisc.edu |
*>
*>--
*>Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net
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*>
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