All things related to multicast

[Bob Riddle <>]

maybe I'll munge around with this - since the SCGlobal folks asked that 
it be running on the AG 2 nodes (and mine is a windoze box).

Jim Ferguson wrote:

> hi Bob,
> Thanks!  We were hoping a volunteer would step up and blaze the trail 
> for us on getting this Perl to run on Win 2K/XP.  :-)  Seriously 
> though, speaking for Mitch, there has been no time to address a 
> Windows "port" yet, and there won't be at least through SC2003 and 
> mods that need to be done following heavy usage and comment after SC 
> Global.
>
> Anyone have any good pointers for Bob?
>
>  -Jim
>
> At 10:54 AM 11/4/2003 -0500, Bob Riddle wrote:
>
> > 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.
> > > ---------------------
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > PLEASE SHARE your comments, questions, bug reports, concerns, and 
> > > feedback
> > > with us via the "newbeacon" listserv at .   
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> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Mitch
> > >
> > > --
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> > > http://hobbes.ncsa.uiuc.edu/
> >
> > --
> > Bob Riddle 
> > ()
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> >
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> > overalls and looks like work" Thomas Edison

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"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks 
like work" Thomas Edison