JANET Multicast Beacon

If you wish to run a dbeacon at your site, you must first obtain the dbeacon software. The latest version of the software is currently here: http://fivebits.net/proj/dbeacon/ If this has changed you should be able to find the new home by entering "dbeacon" into your favorite search engine. The JANET(UK) dbeacons are running version 0.3.9, which you can download here.

Instructions are in the README file once you have untarred the bundle.

To Untar, download the tar.gz file above and then do:

gunzip hugosantos-*.gz
tar -xvf hugosantos-*.tar

As root run:

make

make install

If everything worked, the dbeacon executable should now be in /usr/local/bin/. You need to supply the correct commandline options to use it. The minimum options you require should be available in the Configuration Guidelines.

There is also a second utility (ssmping) which may get built, but is not installed. If this utility is built, and you want to use it, you should copy that manually to /usr/local/bin as well.

If you would also like to run a web server displaying the dbeacon matrix and graphs, there are programs in the ./contrib/ subdirectory that will allow you to do that. The matrix.pl script uses the output from the dbeacon program (see the -d option) and generates the matrix and several database files which can be used to produce graphs of historical data. Note that it requires a lot of disk IO as the files are constantly updated. At last check on our dbeacons 5GB of disk space was in use, and that could easily double if more beacons peer with the matrix.

These pages are for development only, and may not keep pace with any changes in the dbeacon software. If you have problems with your installation, you will need to refer to the installation guide that comes with the software.

JANET(UK), Nov 2010