All things related to multicast

["William F. Maton Sotomayor" <>]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, 

 wrote:

> All,
>        We have been looking at all sorts of tools to help us monitor
> Multicasting traffic on our network.  I was wondering what is everyone
> else using??
>
> Almost every thing on the web is a bit stale...

You are right, most things 'out there' are stale, and seem to be dated 
from the heyday when multicast was a brand new shiney protocol running via 
tunnels and over Suns....

We internally are using Cisco NAM's for our tiny fleet of 6500's to 
obtain a glance at traffic across the core, and Dave Plonka's flowscan 
tools to get a generalized view of multicast traffic totals.

I also have some home-brewed/adapted tools, such as an SDR viewer and MBGP 
route table monitor and doo-dads of a sort. [*]  They're a bit dated as I 
need to include mcast IPv6 and such....

Of course, it all boils down to exactly what you are looking for which 
would lead you to the right tool for the job.

wfms

[*]

http://ryouko.imsb.nrc.ca/bgp-mcast/bgp-all.html
http://ryouko.imsb.nrc.ca/x-bin/mroutes.pl