The omping tool is a pure UDP client and server wrapped in a small binary. Perfectly suited for verifying multicast connectivity on your local network.
Compared to traditional ping omping does not use ICMP. It is based on RFC draft http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-mboned-ssmping-08 and can thus test many different aspects of a setup:
“In addition to checking reception of multicast (SSM or ASM), the protocol can provide related information such as multicast tree setup time, the number of hops the packets have traveled, as well as packet delay and loss.”
Features:
- Similar user experience as classic ping tool
- Ping multiple hosts at once
- Any-source and Source-specific Multicast
Omping is available as an .rpm package in Fedora. Use yum for installation:
$ yum install omping
Not yet available in Debian or Ubuntu, but a .deb package can be built using the sources (below):
$ make package
There are also unsigned packages available from ftp://troglobit.com for adventurous users.
Latest releases at https://github.com/troglobit/omping/releases, for older releases, see https://github.com/jfriesse/omping/releases.
For latest git, use
$ git clone https://github.com/troglobit/omping.git
$ cd omping/
$ make
This project was initially developed by Jan Friesse for Red Hat. It was hosted at the now defunct fedorahosted.org, and can now be found on Jan's GitHub: https://github.com/jfriesse/omping
The https://github.com/troglobit/omping/ project is mainly for packaging to Debian/Ubuntu but also has some minor fixes.