All things related to multicast

[Greg Wickham <>]

On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 17:40 +0100, Stig Venaas wrote:
> Alan Crosswell wrote:
> [...]
> > Priorities:
> > 
> > 1. Looking glasses in gigapops, campuses w/multicast commands
> > 2. tool to walk looking glasses/snmp proxies
> > 3. install ssmpingd on Abilene measurement boxes
> > 4. bwctl support for iperf multicast.
> 
> Not so sure about the order here. IMO 2 is very interesting, but also 
> the most difficult of the above, and won't happen any time soon. It's 
> more something to wish for. This is something I'm interested in looking 
> into though.

I'm interested in #2 too. It'd be nice to see an RPC-XML framework
developed that would be used to communicate with a central looking glass
for each domain.

The jewel would be having the XML replies provide router specific
multicast information in addition to giving hints about next hops at
inter-domain boundaries. That way 'chaining' of looking glasses would be
transparent to the diagnostician.

Anyone interested in collaborating on this? (Or does it already exist
and I just don't know ....).

   -Greg

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