All things related to multicast

[Bob Riddle <>]

I'm dying to know the shortest path to install this & make it usable on 
Windows.  I've downloaded the ActiveState Perl ... but now I need make, 
etc ...  please tell me I don't need to get the eintrie cygwin package 
installed ...

Mitch Kutzko wrote:

> Hi, folks -- Good news and bad news.   ;-)
>
> The good news is that several bugs have been squashed, and several new
> features are now available with the v0.9.06 Beta release of the Multicast
> Beacon.  
>
> The bad news is that the new version (v0.9.06) and the old version
> (v0.9.05) are incompatible with each other, so you'll HAVE TO UPDATE your
> Beacon to be seen again on the http://beacon.dast.nlanr.net web page.
>
> The latest release (v0.9.06) is now available at:
>
>         http://dast.nlanr.net/projects/beacon/newbeacon
>
> This version also now requires Perl module Net::Domain, which is already
> part of most Perl installs, although it appears that it's NOT part of the
> Perl install that comes with the default darwin/PowerPC OS.
>
> > From the README:  (Please read the README..)
> ---------------------
> * The Net-RTP-0.4 library hasn't changed between v0.9.04, v0.9.05,
>  and v0.9.06.  The only changes have been to the beacon.pl and
>  beacon.conf scripts, and the internal data format used by them.
>  If you already have Net-RTP-0.4 installed on your system, you
>  only need to update the beacon.pl and beacon.conf files.
>
>  For v0.9.06, you will ALSO need to install Perl module
>  Net::Domain if your installation doesn't already have it.
>  (Darwin installs seem to be the only OS's I've tested under
>  that don't already have it.)
>
>  You can use:
>
>        /usr/bin/perl -MCPAN -e shell
>
>  and at the prompt enter:
>
>        install Net::Domain
>
>  to install Net::Domain for those OS's.  If it's the first time
>  you run CPAN, you'll have to go through the Perl Inquisition
>  while it figures out where and how to install what it needs, but
>  then it should be much simpler thereafter.  I used all the
>  default values to the many, many questions when I installed to
>  the PowerPC I used for this last week, and it worked out fine.
> ---------------------
>
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> Mitch
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