Re: [Q] multicasting product ?

2001-12-20 Thread HP Wei
But, as this send whole files, I'm a little bit irritated about the name mrsync - wouldn't mrcp or mtftp be better? Or mrdist. I agree that mrcp (or mrdist) is perhaps a name that more adequately captures the functionality of this code at this moment. If this code is

[Q] multicasting product ?

2001-12-19 Thread Ph. Marek
Hi everybody! Now that RSYNC has RSYNC+ included a good usage would be to use RSYNC+ to gather update-date, then multicast that on your hosts and process it. So my question is: does anyone know of a product which does reliable multicasting? (source available would be preferred) Simple

Re: [Q] multicasting product ?

2001-12-19 Thread HP Wei
So my question is: does anyone know of a product which does reliable multicasting? (source available would be preferred) At our company, we have a mrsync running for a couple of months now. mrsync is to transfer files to many machines at the same time using UDP and multicast. I

Re: [Q] multicasting product ?

2001-12-19 Thread Jim Littlefield
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 08:51:46AM -0500, HP Wei wrote: So my question is: does anyone know of a product which does reliable multicasting? (source available would be preferred) At our company, we have a mrsync running for a couple of months now. mrsync is to transfer files to many machines

Re: [Q] multicasting product ?

2001-12-19 Thread Jos Backus
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 12:11:46PM +0100, Ph. Marek wrote: Now that RSYNC has RSYNC+ included a good usage would be to use RSYNC+ to gather update-date, then multicast that on your hosts and process it. Note that the rsync+ functionality as currently present in CVS does not work; I sent a