[AG-TECH] Multicast beacon questions

[John Shalf]

"David E. Bernholdt" wrote:
> 
> I have a couple of questions about the beacon and the web status
> pages.
> 
> First of all, how much traffic should I be expecting?  The networking
> folks have just been banging on my door because there seem to be
> thousands of packets per second of multicast traffic due to my
> beacon.  This doesn't make sense to me, as there are only O(100)
> listed beacons.  

Interesting,
our networking folks were seeing the same thing.  LBLnet
says some individual sites are generating thousands of
packets per second from their beacons.  I'm kind of
interested in the answer to this as well.

> It is possible something has changed recently, or a
> site is misconfigured?  The networking folks have only noticed this in
> the last couple of weeks, even though I've been running the beacon for
> a perhaps two months.  Without meaning to point fingers, it seems like
> an inordinante fraction of the traffic involves UNM.