[Q] multicasting product ?

[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 at the same time using
> UDP and multicast.  I attached at the end of this message the excerpt
> from the docs of mrync.
>
> If this is what you need, we can contribute this program to the
> openSource.

I, for one, have been looking for a long time for an open source multicast
rsync like application to handle distributing updated applications (such
as Perl) to many machines. Mrsync sounds like it just might do the trick.

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