RHEA-2011:1576 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An updated omping package that fixes several bugs and adds various enhancements
is now available as a Technology Preview for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

Open Multicast Ping (omping) is a tool for testing IP multicast functionality,
primarily on a LAN (local area network). It allows users to test multicast and
receive sufficient information to detect whether a potential problem exists in
the network configuration, or lies elsewhere, as might be the case with a bug.

The omping package has been upgraded to upstream version 0.0.4, which provides a
number of bug fixes and the following enhancements:

• support for Source Specific Multicast (SSM);
• support for broadcast;
• single node mode, which allows users to detect a misconfigured local firewall;
• more precise and rich statistics;
• rate limiting;
• duplicate packet detection. (BZ#696747)

Users are advised to upgrade to this updated omping package, which resolves
these bugs and adds these enhancements. Note that this package is included as a
Technology Preview.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat
Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 6 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 696747 - rebase omping in rhel 6.2

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/support/offerings/techpreview/