[AG-TECH] beacon peculiarities

[William D. Hamblen]

Hi,

I'm working with Gurcharan on this.  I have a clarification on point 3.  

On 8 Oct 2003, Gurcharan S. Khanna wrote:
>
> 1) multicast no longer works in two buildings on campus, i.e., AG
> doesn't work going outside the building (no incoming or outgoing
> streams) although it works within the building
>
> 2) multicast does work in two others
> 
> 3) beacon clients work (i.e., show up on the beaconserver page) in the
> two buildings where multicast doesn't
>
> 4) beacon clients don't work in the two buildings where multicast does

When we say multicast does work in a building, it's because AG 1.x works
just fine there.

In the buildings where multicast doesn't work, but the beacon client does,
the beaconserver web page shows NA from our client to all sites except
itself.  So the beacon is working in the sense that it accurately depicts 
the woeful state of multicast from that building.  It is not working in 
the usual sense - i.e. it cannot talk to the other clients.

 - Bill

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