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mcsender

MCSENDER(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       MCSENDER(8)

NAME

       mcsender - Multicast test tool to send multicast test packets

SYNOPSIS

       mcsender [-t<ttl>] [-i<interface>] ip:port

DESCRIPTION

       mcsender sends multicast packets to the specified IPv4 or IPv6 multicast address and port. The packets sent contain the string "this is the
       test message from mclab/mcsender
".

OPTIONS

       -t<ttl>
	      Set the TTL (or hop limit for IPv6) to the specified value.

       -i<interface>
	      Specify the interface to use for outgoing multicast datagrams.

EXAMPLES

       To send datagrams to IPv4 multicast address 239.1.1.1 and port 12345 with a TTL of 3:

       $ mcsender -t3 239.1.1.1:12345

       To send datagrams to IPv4 multicast address 239.1.1.1 and port 12345 with a TTL of 3 out of interface eth1:

       $ mcsender -ieth1 -t3 239.1.1.1:12345

       To send datagrams to IPv6 multicast address ff15::1 and port 12345 with a hop limit of 3:

       $ mcsender -t3 ff15::1:12345

       To send datagrams to IPv6 multicast address ff15::1 and port 12345 with a hop limit of 3 out of interface eth1:

       $ mcsender -ieth1 -t3 ff15::1:12345

AUTHOR

       mcsender was written by Carsten Schill <carsten@cschill.de>.

       Support for IPv6 was added by Todd Hayton <todd.hayton@gmail.com>.

       This manual page was written by Julien BLACHE <jblache@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								  August 08, 2011						       MCSENDER(8)