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 supports both IPv4 and IPv6 multicast, collecting information via ASM and SSM. dbeacon was originally only IPv6 capable, designed to be used in the m6bone.
Binary packages can be installed with the high-level tool pkgin (which can be installed with pkg_add) or pkg_add(1) (installed by default). The NetBSD packages collection is also designed to permit easy installation from source.
The pkg_admin audit command locates any installed package which has been mentioned in security advisories as having vulnerabilities.
Please note the vulnerabilities database might not be fully accurate, and not every bug is exploitable with every configuration.
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