May 23, 2007
dbeacon
There have been a number of multicast beacons developed over the years; dbeacon is the latest offering.
dbeacon is a Multicast Beacon written in C++. The main purpose of a beacon is to monitor other beacon’s reachability and collect statistics such as loss, delay and jitter between beacons. dbeacon support both IPv4 and IPv6 multicast, collecting information using both Any Source Multicast (ASM) and Source-Specific Multicast (SSM).
The difference between dbeacon from many previous beasons is that it is a peer-to-peer system - each host running dbeacon is equal and there is no master server. Each host has the option of running the web frontend to monitor statistics. Unlike previous beacons, dbeacon does not send out pseudo RTP packets and instead uses its own protocol.
Homepage: fivebits.net/proj/dbeacon/
Don’t suppose you have a copy of the dbeacon binary for debian or the source code? The fivebits.net site is not available at the moment and I wanted to install this software for our v6 multicast testing. Cheers!
Site seems to be up again now.
But there is now a local copy here:
http://www.multicast.org.uk/dbeacon/