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The Jgroups manual describes the procedure for using application level multicast at http://www.jgroups.org/manual/html/user-advanced.html

However, after banging my head against it for a couple of days, I still could not get the nodes to detect the gossipRouter. After inspecting it with wireshark, I realized that the nodes were not even sending the ping message to the gossipRouter which implied an error in the stack set up for the system.Following the exact stack as mentioned in the manual does not work due to updated syntax in the newer versions.This is the new syntax to get the simple set up working with gossipRouter.

 <TCPGOSSIP
timeout=”3000″ 
initial_hosts=”192.168.1.5[12001]”
num_initial_members=”3″ 
reconnect_interval=”5000″ />

The gossipRouter should be started at the initial_host IP address listening at the port in the [ xxxxx ]