Re: iperf with multicasting

To: Steven Mugassa <steven.mugassa --at-- intafrica.com>
Subject: Re: iperf with multicasting
From: Matthew J Zekauskas <matt --at-- internet2.edu>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:53:02 -0400
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--On Tuesday, September 30, 2003 5:21 PM +0300 Steven Mugassa <steven.mugassa --at-- intafrica.com> wrote:

> My question is, which multicast system is used by iperf when sending its UDP
> multicast packets? Is it GRMP or IGMP? or another protocol different from
> those two?

Its your OS, not Iperf, that will decide this.  My bet would
be on some flavor of IGMP (note that there are two different,
and I don't believe compatible, versions deployed right now
(v2 and v3)).  So, I would start with OS documentation/references...

--Matt, not a multicast expert, knows just enough to be dangerous

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