Border routers of an organization could be configured to prohibit traffic across the boundary within the range. The table below illustrated the different scopes. Make sure you select an address with appropriate scope. There are a few special IPv4 multicast addresses. 224.0.0.2 is the all-routers group for all multicast routers on a subnet.
Ping is a tool for request replies from a host.
Here is some examples . Multicast Beacon is an active measurement software to monitor the performance of current multicast transmission on the network. It does this by injecting a steady stream of probes into a multicast group, and measuring performance information when the probes arrive at other beacons. A set of Beacons sends packets continuously to each other through a multicast group, and measures the performance of the transmission. It then reports to the BeaconServer periodically.