Projects : net/beacon

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Following, are FreeBSD ports, or other *BSD related projects, hosted, or worked on at BSDforge in the net category.

Beacon
Beacon is an active measurement tool to monitor multicast

The NLANR/DAST Multicast Beacon is a program written in Perl which uses the RTP protocol to provide useful statistics and diagnostic information about a given multicast group. The Multicast Beacon can be used as a general-purpose active multicast measurement tool.

Installation

On a FreeBSD system;
Using the ports system:
cd /usr/ports/net/beacon make install clean
Using the pkg system:
pkg install net/beacon