All things related to multicast

[Bill Owens <>]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 11:28:31AM -0700, Todd Chapman wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am trying to get dBeacon running and am unable to access the matrix page
> at http://mars.innerghost.net.ipv4.sixxs.org/matrix/. Anyone else able to
> access this page? 

I can't reach the v4 or v6 pages, I suspect that machine is down.

> Another question...I would like to set up dBeacon for my own group, but
> there is absolutely no documentation on how to do that. Anyone have any
> helpful tips?

Do you mean that you want to choose a separate multicast group, and have a 
set of beacons running on that group? dbeacon -h will give you a list of all 
the flags, and the ones you want are probably a, n, C, W, Wm, d and b, and 
possibly S if you do SSM as well as ASM. Here's an example of my command line 
for the semi-official I2 group:

dbeacon -a 

 -n NYSERNet Syr -C US -W http://www.nysernet.org -b 233.77.70.200 -S 
232.2.3.2

I don't have that server keep a matrix on that group, that's what the Wm and 
d flags are for. For any machine that runs a matrix, you also need to install 
the script and config, as explained here: http://dbeacon.innerghost.net/

Bill.