For Windows, I'd try Internet2 Detective
http://detective.internet2.edu/ to check your multicast. Unless you're
running a major node, there's no real reason to keep a beacon running.
AFAIK there is no build of the 1.3 beacon for Windows yet.
Derek
Don Morton wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> After a long absence I'm looking into getting a PIG going
> again, and I see the AG world has changed much in two years!
>
> At this point, the plan is to use an XP machine, and I just
> got connected to Multicast this morning (or so we think).
> At least in the old days, the next step was to start running
> a multicast beacon and see if you show up on the matrix.
>
> I've gone to
>
> http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Beacon/
>
> and see that the world is apparently using
> Multicast Beacon v1.3, but there don't appear
> to be any Windoze versions of Beacon 1.3.
> Am I correct in assuming that the Beacon 1.1 that
> Ivan compiled for Win32 some time ago is incompatible?
>
> Bottom line - can someone point me to info on setting up
> a beacon for an XP machine? Once I've verified multicast, I'll
> try to install the AG Toolkit.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Don Morton
> U. Montana
>
>
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Derek Piper - dcpi...@indiana.edu - (812) 856 0111
IRI 323, School of Informatics
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
