Trying to Get Started in Missoula

[Bill Nickless]

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At 05:31 PM 9/22/2000 -0600, Don Morton wrote:
>1) Get a beacon server up and running here.  Our campus
>network now has Internet 2, and I'm told that we "could"
>get multicast enabled.  I've browsed through the AG and
>Beacon websites, and I see nothing to suggest that I
>can't get away with the following for a test setup:
>
>- 100MHz Pentium running Slackware 7.1 (though can change to RedHat if
>necessary)
>- Standard 3com 3c??? 10/100 ethernet card
>- multicast provided to me via 10BaseT network
>
>Is this realistic?  I feel "somewhat" confident of
>this first step...

This is quite enough performance to run a beacon.  The only thing the 
beacon really needs is a Java 1.2 runtime, and I have every confidence that 
Slackware should be able to provide that.

For the beacon multicast group, 10BaseT should be sufficient.  That will 
let you get the IP multicast routing protocols operating and 
tested.  However, you should be planning to upgrade that to 100Base 
Ethernet before doing your first real Access Grid participation.

In terms of IP multicast deployment, please feel free to put me in contact 
with your campus networking people.  I would be pleased to assist to 
whatever level I can, up to and including traveling to your campus to help.
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Bill Nickless    http://www.mcs.anl.gov/people/nickless      +1 630 252 7390
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