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Tools and instruction to test your network's multicast connectivity and performance. The tools package contains documentation, source code and pre-compiled executables for Windows and a variety of Unixes.

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Mtools News!

10 November 2008

  • Added code to mdump to echo the msend command used for a test.
  • Added duplicate prints and flushes to mdump to make redirection of stdout convenient.
  • Changed Windows build to use VisualStudio 6 compiler to maximize compatibility.

15 September 2008

  • Mac OSX now supported with pre-compiled binary.
  • Added "-P" option to msend to specify the payload of the messages (in hex).

24 December 2007:

  • The msend program now has a "-5" test which pushes the network hardware a bit harder than "-4" and also checks for certain kinds of Linux send-side loss.
  • Changes in socket buffer sizes for both msend and mdump are intended to verify that the OS has adequate values for default and maximum send and receive socket buffers.
  • Added a FreeBSD pre-compiled binary.
  • Added "-v" option to mdump - checks the sequence number of each received message and warns of sequence errors.
  • The msend program now does a 1-second sleep after its first send to allow network hardware to establish the mcast flow.

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