[alcatel-nsp] Pinging a multicast address

Bryan deadheadblues at gmail.com
Fri Mar 25 19:42:01 EDT 2011


Yeah, that's what it looks like. I will to have to get some PC's in the lab.

Thanks for the replies.

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:42 PM, ryanL <ryan.landry at gmail.com> wrote:
> now that i've re-read your email and remembered back to my pure cisco
> days, i know what you are digging at. i don't think it's available. i
> scanned thru the 6.1 docs and the 8.0 docs... no mention of it.
>
> best that i can find (which doesn't help you) is their mtrace, mrinfo,
> and mstat features.
>
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Bryan <deadheadblues at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ryan,
>>
>> Thank you. I am specifically talking about pinging a multicast
>> address. All the other requirements are in tact.
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:56 AM, ryanL <ryan.landry at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> typically you are going to need pim enabled (conf->router->pim), and a
>>> multicast route to a source (learned either statically or by RP) ...
>>> no?
>>>
>>> or am i missing something here?
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Bryan <deadheadblues at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> In the Cisco world we can ping a multicast address, specifically
>>>> another router with the "ip igmp join-group" command and the multicast
>>>> network set up properly. In ALU, there is a static command but this
>>>> address does not respond to pings. Also, the sending router doesn't
>>>> even transmit packets:
>>>>
>>>> *A:r1# ping 239.0.0.1
>>>> PING 239.0.0.1 56 data bytes
>>>> No route to destination. Address: 239.0.0.1, Router: Base
>>>> No route to destination. Address: 239.0.0.1, Router: Base
>>>> No route to destination. Address: 239.0.0.1, Router: Base
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to test multicast using ping and ALU routers?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Bryan
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>>
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