PGM Multicasting using a RDM Socket

I've recently created an application housed on a few servers...each
server is listening to a multicast address on a socket using the RDM
socket type. Supposedly, this uses PGM(Pragmatic General Multicasting)
for multicasting...
How can I test the reliability of this form of multicasting? I'm
planning on using it in an enterprise environment so I need reliable
multicasting and before we deploy the application I would like to make
sure this form of multicasting is indeed reliable.
All my servers are Windows Server 2003
//create a PGM multicast socket
Socket mySocket =
new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork,SocketType.Rdm, (ProtocolType)113);
[710 byte] By [dotnetfrage] at [2008-1-10]
# 1
Hello,

One test you could try is setting up a small network and a multicast group and then flood the network with multicast traffic over PGM. If you did this wirelessly, for example, the access point should start dropping packets, and you should be able to monitor that packets are still received.

Daniel Roth
System.Net

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