All things related to multicast

[Stig Venaas <>]

On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 01:24:26PM -0400, Bill Owens wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 03:19:03PM +0000, Caren Litvanyi wrote:
> > Well, we have been working on dbeacon out of GlobalNOC.
> > Our sysadmin guy working on it though is having a little
> > trouble with it dying frequently.  So it is not yet ready
> > for primetime apparently.
> > Shall we continue this effort?
> > Caren
> 
> By all means, but I wonder whether he might be running it on a Linux box? I 
> had problems with it dying unless I disabled SSM (joining SSM, that is). I 
> have since upgraded the kernel on that machine and had hoped it would work 
> better, but the box has been repurposed for a while so I haven't tested it 
> yet.

Linux 2.6 was not stable with SSM until recently. 2.6.12 was the first
stable one if I remember correctly. Same for 2.4 I believe, not sure
what the version number would be.

Stig

> 
> Bill.