Hi!
I am rigging a IPTV multicast test-bed. The goal is to be able to simulate network scenarios such as loss, duplicates, jitter, reordering to benchmark the IPTV solutions. And benchmark the quality reporting tool as well. My problem is that multicast traffic is unaffected by 'tc' (traffic control) operations. Unicast, such as video on demand and management traffic, is affected by tc.
Is there some special treatment of multicast by linux bridging? Hardware acceleration for example?
My setup:
I have a four port network card. br0 is used for wan side of the residential gateway. br1 is used between the RG and the IPTV Set Top Box.
Linux version 3.5.3-1.fc17.i686 (mockbuild@) (gcc version 4.7.0 20120507 (Red Hat 4.7.0-5) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Wed Aug 29 19:25:38 UTC 2012
[root@bridgemaster proc]# brctl show
bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
br0 8000.001b21bba80c no p1p1
p1p2
br1 8000.001b21bba80e no p1p3
p1p4
[root@bridgemaster proc]#
*-network:0
description: Ethernet interface
product: 82580 Gigabit Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
logical name: p1p1
version: 01
serial: 00:1b:21:bb:a8:0c
size: 1Gbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi msix pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=igb driverversion=3.4.7-k duplex=full firmware=3.19-0 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=1Gbit/s
-Erik Taraldsen
