All things related to multicast

[Bill Owens <>]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 02:12:27PM -0500, Matthew J Zekauskas wrote:
> Phil Dykstra asked me about multicast beacons, and I thought I'd forward 
> the question here.
> 
> In particular, are networks still running them (I don't think there is 
> one on the Internet2 Network currently), and if so what do they use, 
> since existing code bases are not supported (AFAIK).

I expect you're talking about IPv4, but for v6 there are still a few of us 
die-hards running dbeacon. Debian and Ubuntu have it as a package, which they 
list as version 0.3.9.3. There's a GitHub repository as well 
(https://github.com/hugosantos/dbeacon) which seems to be 0.3.9.2 and hasn't 
been touched in at least two years. 

You can use dbeacon for v4, for example:
http://ag0-video.vislab.uq.edu.au:8888/matrix/

I'm not aware of anyone using it in the US though. . .

Bill.