[AG-TECH] multicast monitoring tools

[Michael Daw]

You might want to check out the following websites for multicast tools:

.	Multicast Debugging Handbook - http://imj.ucsb.edu/mdh/tools.html
.	Multicast Measurement Tools Taxonomy -
http://www.caida.org/tools/taxonomy/multicast.xml

I'm currently evaluating quite a few of these. However, this evaluation is
heavily weighted towards how we in the UK want to use them.

Nothing I've seen does exactly what you describe. Although I guess it
probably wouldn't be too hard to hack - sorry, re-code - one of them to send
a notification if packet loss to a certain site exceeded some threshold
(say).

Let me know if you want to discuss this further. (I stress that I'm no
network expert though.)

--Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov]On
> Behalf Of Leslie Arvin
> Sent: 12 November 2002 17:29
> To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: [AG-TECH] multicast monitoring tools
>
>
> What tools do sites use or are available to monitor local
> multicast?  I'm currently aware of the beacon matrix, but
> it doesn't send a notification if there's a problem.
>
> -- Leslie Arvin
>     arvin at stat.purdue.edu
>     Programmer
>     Purdue University Access Grid
>
>