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diff --git a/net/beacon-server/pkg-descr b/net/beacon-server/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..ccb243e8747c --- /dev/null +++ b/net/beacon-server/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Beacon Server + +The NLANR Multicast Beacon is active measurement software that monitors +the performance of a multicast session. It has two components: + +Beacon Agent -- an active probing program running at each measurement machine. +A set of Beacons sends packets continuously to each other through a +multicast session, and measures the performance of the transmission. It +then reports to the Beacon Server periodically. The current version (v0.63) +is written in Java. + +Beacon Server -- a central server collecting the performance information +from the Beacon Clients. The v0.8 version of the Beacon Server is written +in Perl. + +WWW: http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Beacon/ |