All things related to multicast

[Alan Crosswell <>]

>Is your beacon sending reports to access grid ?

Yup:

bianaoh% more start_beacon.sh 
#!/bin/sh
# Multicast Beacon startup script for AccessGrid

multicast_group=233.2.171.1
multicast_port=56464
beacon_server=beaconserver.accessgrid.org
server_port=9997
time_to_live=127
user_name=beacon

# this version runs under Java1.1 and Java1.2
# compile the program using a stable java implementation on your platform
java  Beacon \
        -group      $multicast_group \
        -port       $multicast_port \
        -server     $beacon_server \
        -serverport $server_port \
        -ttl        $time_to_live \
        -name       $user_name