On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> I've used UUCP over TCP/IP as a mail path for systems that only had >> intermittent network connectivity and it worked very well. if the system >> can detect when it does have connectivity and connect up to a server every >> few min while it retains it, it will do a good job of getting the messages >> through. you don't need to drop down to dialup to make it work, and using >> uucp avoids reinventing the wheel, intermittent connectivity is what it >> was designed for, and it doesn't really matter if that connectivity is >> serial or TCP/IP. > > Did anyone ever publicly extend UUCP to handle "multicast" messages over > broadcast media, like satellite? > > I did something similar years ago for usenet (as did a lot of other folk) > and I'm sure being able to broadcast objects across satellite would be > very very useful for the project. > > I've got plenty of IP/services over Satellite experience here, so I'm happy > to help however i can. Its just been a while since I had access to the end > node hardware, and stuff has changed quite a bit in the 10 years since I > touched it. :)
the good news is that you can simulate things by useing UDP broadcast packets as your transport layer. don't get fixated on the idea of using satellites, as a means for publishing updates a high-powered AM or SSB station can blanket a large area, and the efficiancy gained by only transmitting things a couple times (including error correction to deal with missed packets) instead of once to each destination can counter the drawback of a low bit rate. David Lang _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
