Multicast Traffic generator

anasubra_2 · ‎05-15-2007

Hi,

Can anybody suggest an Multicast Traffic generator(Free window based tool) to test the MVPN solution over MPLS backbone.

Thanking You

Regards

Anantha Subramanian Natarajan

Harold Ritter · ‎05-15-2007

Anantha,

I have used Iperf in the past to test multicast networks.

http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/

Hope this helps,

Harold Ritter
Sr Technical Leader
CCIE 4168 (R&S, SP)
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anasubra_2 · ‎05-15-2007

Hritter,

Thank you very much . But I guess , I am not sure how to use that :) .....I downloaded the source code for windows named iperf-1.7.0-win32 and extracted the same. There is an exe which I when clicked on it opened an DOS prompt for some seconds and automatically closed itself.

Am I looking into the right file ?

Kindly assist me on the same

Thanking You

Regards

Anantha Subramanian Natarajan

scottmac · ‎05-15-2007

We used to use things like iTunes and various music & video sharing and similar in class.

The basic exercise was "get multicasting working, and you can listen to music (or watch videos)"

Good Luck

Scott

anasubra_2 · ‎05-15-2007

Thanks

Harold Ritter · ‎05-15-2007

Anantha,

Once you open your DOS shell, you can start "Iperf --help" to see all the flags and parameters you can set.

Hope this helps,

Harold Ritter
Sr Technical Leader
CCIE 4168 (R&S, SP)
harold@cisco.com
México móvil: +52 1 55 8312 4915
Cisco México
Paseo de la Reforma 222
Piso 19
Cuauhtémoc, Juárez
Ciudad de México, 06600
México

Harold Ritter · ‎05-15-2007

Anantha,

You need to open a DOS shell and run Iperf with the flags specified in the following documentation.

http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/#multicast

Hope this helps,

Harold Ritter
Sr Technical Leader
CCIE 4168 (R&S, SP)
harold@cisco.com
México móvil: +52 1 55 8312 4915
Cisco México
Paseo de la Reforma 222
Piso 19
Cuauhtémoc, Juárez
Ciudad de México, 06600
México

royalblues · ‎05-16-2007

Scott,

How was your setup... I have tried sharing Mp3 files over multicast but was never successful

Narayan

johnd2310 · ‎05-21-2007

Hi,

Try vlc to stream video or music

regards

John

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anasubra_2 · ‎05-23-2007

Thanks

ajaykumar2k1 · ‎05-21-2007

Hi,

Find the attached file for windows based multicast tester.

Regards

Ajay

rtroyoqu · ‎05-25-2012

Great app.. thank you!

edondurguti · ‎05-25-2012

Run EIGRP if it works it works

or get VLC and stream a file to a multicast address on a windows/linux machine, then play the multicast from another machine using vlc... ps. just before finishing the stream setup if you use gui add a time to live ttl=12 or something, cuz it's 1 by default.