[id='discovery-mping_{context}']
= MPING
MPING uses IP multicast to discover the initial membership of {brandname} clusters.

You can use MPING to replace TCPPING discovery with TCP stacks and use multicasing for discovery instead of static lists of initial hosts.
However, you can also use MPING with UDP stacks.

.MPING configuration example
[source,xml,options="nowrap",subs=attributes+]
----
include::config_examples/mping.xml[]
----

[role="_additional-resources"]
.Additional resources
* link:{jgroups_docs}#MPING[JGroups MPING]
