Multicast Test Program

Setup package contains a simple program that may be used to test multicast feed connections and to troubleshoot Multicast issues. This utility can be found in the "tools" directory of setup package.

How MulticastTest works?

For example, following command checks the availability of ICE Futures Brent, Price Level, Live Feed:

> MulticastTest.exe --verbose --ip 233.156.208.228 --port 20228 --interface 127.0.0.1 --maxPackets 30
ip: 233.156.208.228
port: 20228
interface: 127.0.0.1
timeout: 30
maxPackets: 30
Creating socket
Setting SO_REUSEADDR
Setting SO_RCVTIMEO
Initializing socket address
Binding
Initializing mcast request
Initializing interface address
Joining mcast group
Date: 07/15/2013
    Time         Bytes        Packets
Entering test loop
11:45:21           572              4
11:45:22          1573             11
11:45:23          2574             18
11:45:24          3432             24
11:45:25          4433             31

Please refer to the included README.txt file for build and usage information.