All things related to multicast

["William F. Maton Sotomayor" <>]

On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, 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 volunteered a server for this at ks2.nrc.ca, provided folks run a 
reasonable version of the NLANR beacon, (IPv$), namely v 1.3 which can be 
had from Sourceforge.  Ah, my browser is still showing the web page for 
that central server:

http://k2.nrc.ca/beacon/local_loss.html

It's conected via the CANARIE network here in Canada, but can be reached 
through Internet2.

wfms