[AG-TECH] Problem with the beacon?

[Bob Riddle]

I rebuilt this using a larger maxReportPacketSize a couple of weeks ago 
(mailed the new code to our buddy ChrisG) because the nlanr-beacon 
wouldn't start and our nodes started appearing again.  That solved the 
problem of our nodes not being seen at all in the "tree".  Its sort of 
the situation where the last one (more than 8192 bytes of information) 
loses - but the early arrivals were still seen correctly. 

There's something strange going on - I rebooted the vrvs-ag & a couple 
of the cakebox nodes & they magically reappeared in the beacon page.  I 
changed nothing else, just restarted, yesterday, (by rebooting) the 
nlanr-beacon process.

Has anyone heard anything more from the NLANR guys?

Jon Zeeff wrote:

>
> Here are some suggestions that seem to work for me:
>
> Download the lastest beacon software - beacon_v0.63
>
> Edit Beacon.java to these values (I randomly increased them)
>
>     final static int maxPacketSize = 4096; // set this to quite large 
> enough
>     final static String magicString= "beacon0600"; // unique 
> identification
>     final static int maxReportPacketSize = 16384; // approximately 
> enough for 80
>
> Edit Send.java
>
>           socket.setTimeToLive(bcn.mcTtl); // for JDK1.2
>           // socket.setTTL((byte)bcn.mcTtl);     // for JDK1.1
>
>
> Run "javac *.java"
>
> Restart the beacon. FYI, I see 119 different sources in the 
> *233.2.171.1* group.
>
> At 12:04 AM 4/21/2003 -0500, Bill Nickless wrote:
>
>> Hi Bob,
>>
>> Which beacons did you restart?  I would like to look to see if their 
>> reports are making it to the server, and that their traffic is making 
>> it to the outside world.
>>
>> There could still be a problem, but I would like to look at specific 
>> beacons to verify it.
>
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