multicast testing
Bill Nickless
nickless at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Jul 7 15:00:29 CDT 1999
Just a quick note of emphasis--
There is literally NO state that can be traced through the network if you
do not have a multicast client running at your site. All multicast state
is transient--whether it be on local switches talking IGMP, local routers
that talk DVMRP or PIM, or border routers doing M-BGP and MSDP. Leaving a
vic up at your site, as Bob requests below, is the only way for that state
to be present for us network geeks to probe at and debug.
At 10:45 AM 7/7/99 -0500, Robert Olson wrote:
>The ANL and vBNS multicast engineering folks will be online this week. If
>we could have everyone fire up vic on the multicast channel
>
> vic -t 127 224.2.177.155/55524
>
>and let me know that you have done so, what machine it is running on, and
>what other video streams you see, we will do some multicast route tracing
>to get a feel for how our connectivity is doing and try to fix any problems
>that show up.
>
>It will be to our advantage to get the multicast connectivity fixed as much
>as possible, so that we do not have to incur the delays that appear to be
>introduced by the bridge at high bandwidths.
>
>--bob
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