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hello group,



i like to introduce me and  a  tool that i found ,  its called dbeacon  [ 1 ] 
 and his main purpose
is , to monitor other network beacon's reachability and collect statistics 
such as loss,
delay and jitter between network beacons.

dbeacon [ 1 ]  support both IPv4 and IPv6 multicast,  collecting information 
via Any Source Multicast  and Source specific multicast.

A working version for osx even tiger works ;)
can be found  here  [ 2 ]

my goal is:

I  want to run a tool that monitors multicast connectivity
on a server that has an IPv6 tunnel over a dynamic IPv4 address.

My questions  are :

I found a provider in germany [ 3 ]  that could connect me to an /48er  IPv6 
Subnet over
a  IPv6-to-IPv4 tunnel i need to run a shellscript [4 ]  and  IProute2 [5 ]

or there are any other possibilitys the get my apache2  with an dynamic ipv4
to 6 tunnel on the matrix  [6 ] ?

If not  , has anybody  experiene  with  IProute2 [5 ]  or get it  working on 
osx 10.xx  ?


regards

marcM

[ 1 ]   http://artemis.av.it.pt/~hsantos/dbeacon/
[ 2 ]   http://dero.tamu.edu/~tyler/code/macosx/  thanks to tyler;)
[ 3 ]   http://www.xaranet.de/produkte/ipv6-tunnel.php
[4 ]    http://www.xaranet.de/dl/xaranet-tunnel.sh
[5 ]    http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.iproute2.html
[6 ]    http://mars.innerghost.net.ipv4.sixxs.org/matrix/


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