JANET Multicast, JANET

PLEASE NOTE: The beacon is running patched 1.3 software. You must be running 1.3 beacon software to get your clients to talk to this server.

Access to the server's web pages as well as beacon client installation and confi guration guidelines are linked below:

The Beacons:

JANET public Beacon This beacon is publicly available for the academic and research community's use

JANET Access Grid Beacon This beacon is aimed at confirming the connectivity of Access Grid conferencing facilities

JANET Regional Network Beacon This beacon is for the use of Reg ional Network Operators for beacons directly connected to Regional Networks in t he UK

Installation and Configuration

Beacon Client Installation Guidelines

Beacon Client Configuration Guidelines

Other multicast activities

Dbeacon under development Use group address 233.3.18.5 and port 30185 IPv4 ASM only

a SSMping server is available at ssmping.beacon.ja.net. See here for more details of SSMping

These pages are currently under development. If you have any queries, please con tact Steve Williams at JANET(UK).
Steve.Williams at ja.net