IP Multicast - IP Multicast Software

IP Multicast Software

• Media Tools Repository, UK: UCL, http://mediatools.cs.ucl.ac.uk/nets/mmedia/ – a collection of tools for the MBone.
• VideoLAN – a free software multicasted video streaming application.
• Xorp, http://www.xorp.org/ – a free software router with multicast (IGMP, PIM) support.
• Smcroute, Debian, http://alioth.debian.org/projects/smcroute/ – a simple tool to manipulate multicast routes on the Linux kernel.
• SSM-ping, NO: Venås, http://www.venaas.no/multicast/ssmping/ – tool to test multicast connectivity.
• Wilbert, IGMP v3, Kloosterhof, http://www.kloosterhof.com/~wilbert/igmpv3.html – host implementation of IGMPv3 on FreeBSD.
• IP multi (software), Palo Alto: Xerox, ftp://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/net-research/ipmulti/
• Java Reliable Multicast Service, http://labs.oracle.com/techrep/1998/abstract-68.html - libraries and services for building multicast-aware applications
• PIM implementation, USC, http://netweb.usc.edu/pim/ – an implementation of the PIM protocol, now obsolete
• qpimd – PIM Daemon for Quagga, GNU, http://www.nongnu.org/qpimd/ — PIM module for the Quagga Routing Suite.
• GateD, Next hop, http://www.nexthop.com/products/gated.html – Unix implementation of routing protocols, including multicast.
• PIM-DM code for GateD, University of Oregon, http://www.antc.uoregon.edu/GATED/.
• NORM, NRL, http://cs.itd.nrl.navy.mil/work/norm/ – Nack-Oriented Reliable Multicast from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, with an open source C++ implementation.
• ecmh (Easy Cast du Multi Hub), Unfix, http://unfix.org/projects/ecmh/ – IPv6 Multicast Daemon, allows IPv6 multicast to be used without the need for PIM.
• MRD6 – IPv6 multicast routing daemon
• UFTP – encrypted UDP based FTP with multicast
• GStreamer – a free software multimedia framework that supports multicast video streaming