MTEST(8) MidnightBSD System Manager’s Manual MTEST(8)

NAME

mtest — test multicast membership socket operations and ioctls

SYNOPSIS

mtest

DESCRIPTION

The mtest utility is a small program for testing the multicast membership socket operations and ioctls. It accepts the following commands, interactively:

j g.g.g.g i.i.i.i

Join the IP group address g.g.g.g on the interface with address i.i.i.i. i.i.i.i may be specified as 0.0.0.0 to use the default interface.

l g.g.g.g i.i.i.i

Leave the IP group address g.g.g.g on the interface with address i.i.i.i.

a ifname e.e.e.e.e.e

Join the Ethernet group address e.e.e.e.e.e on interface ifname.

d ifname e.e.e.e.e.e

Leave the Ethernet group address e.e.e.e.e.e on interface ifname.

m ifname 1/0

Set or reset ALLMULTI mode on interface ifname.

p ifname 1/0

Set or reset promiscuous mode on interface ifname.

?

List legal commands.

q

Quit the program.

AUTHORS

Steve Deering

BUGS

The command parser is not very flexible.

MidnightBSD 0.3 December 15, 1996 MidnightBSD 0.3