This is not a proper HowTo, more of a “note to self” after having created a setup to test pimd issue #57. For these notes the following virtual topology, running on Ubuntu 15.10 with Linux 4.2 and Qemu 2.3.0, is used: .--------. net1 .----. net2 .----. net3 .----------. | Sender |------| R2 |------| R3 |------| Receiver | '--------' '----' '----' '----------' The networks between the boxes are actually Linux bridge devices (br), on which you may have to disable IGMP/MLD snooping to get pi...