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PROGRAM:
NAME
dbeacon - Distributed IPv4/IPv6 multicast beacon
SYNOPSYS
dbeacon -a MAIL -b BEACON_ADDR[/PORT] [-i INTFNAME] [-n NAME] [-S [GROUP_ADDR[/PORT]] [-s
ADDR] [-d [FILE]] [-I NUMBER] [-W type$url] [-L program] [-C CC] [-4] [-6] [-v] [-P] [-U]
[-V] [-F flag] [-O] [-B ADDR]
DESCRIPTION
dbeacon is a network level management tool aiming at getting various statistics about
multicast connectivity. Its first usage is to check out if you can send/receive
toward/from an IPv4/IPv6 multicast network. Its second usage is to gather various
statistics by using a known multicast ASM group, for example TTL between each multicast
peers, loss or jitter figures. Theses statistics are kept internally but can be dumped
periodically in a file in xml format for latter processing. Statistics gathering is
completetly distributed and rely on the powerful nature of ASM. No server is required, but
maybe a http server for accessing the statistics and build an adjacency matrix of the
peers.
OPTIONS
-n NAME, -name NAME
The name identifying you on the dbeacon session. If not specified, dbeacon will use
the hostname of the running machine.
-a MAIL
Administrative contact. This is an e-mail used for join you, for example to notify
you that something is wrong is your multicast connectivity
-i IN, -interface IN
Use IN instead of the default interface for multicast.
-b BEACON_ADDR/PORT
This is the IPv4/IPv6 address of the ASM group used by dbeacon to gather
statistics. It can be specified as a DNS name too.
-S GROUP_ADDR/PORT
Enables SSM reception/sending on optional GROUP_ADDR/PORT
-O This option enable SSM data sending in addition to ASM data. It can be used to
check if people can reach you via SSM.
-B ADDR
This allows you to bootstrap from an ADDR that is already in the matrix. This
option is useful when you ASM connectivity is broken but SSM connectivity works.
-P, -ssmping
Enable SSM Ping server capability.
-s ADDR
Bind to local address. This allow you to specify the multicast source of the
packets sent by your beacon.
-d FILE
Dump periodic reports to dump.xml or specified file. This file may be latter
processed by any XML compliant script. On a http server, you can process the dump
to create a nice adjacency matrix.
-I NUMBER, -interval NUMBER
Interval between refresh of the dump file. Defaults to 5 secs if not specified
-W URL, -website URL
Specify a website to announce.
-Wm URL, -matrix URL
Specify your matrix URL.
-Wl URL, -lg URL
Specify your looking glass URL.
-C CC Specify your two letter Country Code.
-L program
Launch program after each dump. The first argument will be the dump filename.
-F flag
Specify a flag to announce. For example to announce that your host is running a
ssmpingd daemon, use `ssmping' as a flag.
-4, -ipv4
Force IPv4 usage (Default is IPv6).
-6, -ipv6
Force IPv6 usage
-v verbose mode (use several for more verbosity)
-U Dump periodic bandwidth usage reports to stdout
-D, -daemon
fork to the background (daemonize)
-pidfile FILE
Path to the PID file to write to.
-syslog
Outputs using syslog facility.
-c FILE
Specifies the configuration file to use. Each of the above command-line parameters
can be defined there.
-V, -version
Outputs version information and leaves
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