DESCRIPTION
The map-mbone utility attempts to display all multicast routers that are reachable from the multicast starting_router. If not specified on the command line, the default multicast starting_router is the localhost. The map-mbone utility traverses neighboring multicast routers by sending the ASK_NEIGHBORS IGMP message to the multicast starting_router. If this multicast router responds, the version number and a list of their neighboring multicast router addresses is part of that response. If the responding router has recent multicast version number, then map-mbone requests additional information such as metrics, thresholds, and flags from the multicast router. For each new occurrence of neighboring multicast router in the reply and provided the flooding option has been selected, then map-mbone asks each of this multicast router for a list of neighbors. This search for unique routers will continue until no new neighboring multicast routers are reported.
The following options are available:
