multicast simulation software tools needed

[ewang]

I am creating a self-study labs with a few 2600 routers. I plan to turn on multicast debug to observe those join/register/prune messages. I believe I can configure a router as "listener" by "ip igmp static-join" but is there any software (which I can install on a PC) to simulate a multicast "source"?

thanks!

[amit-singh]

Check if this helps:

http://www.live555.com/liveCaster/liveInput.html

-amit singh

[Harold Ritter]

You can get a windows receiver and source software at the following URL:

http://www.shepfarm.com/multicast/tools.html

Hope this helps,

[ankbhasi]

Hi Ewang,

The easiest of all is IPERF. You can just downlod the exe file and install on 2 machines and run one on client and one on server and just issue some commands to start multicast traffic.

http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/iperfdocs_1.7.0.html#multicast

HTH

Ankur