[Gllug] Playing with a deployment idea - PXE, bittorrent, remote location

[Alan Peery]

Chris Jones wrote:
> Hi
>
> Alan Peery wrote:
>   
>>     * Bittorrent style download of remainder of distribution, source
>>     
>
> Why bittorrent? If the server
Because I have waved a magic wand and made the server in the branch 
disappear.  I am trying to get the benefits of a local cache without 
having a local server.  One way is to have the clients at the remote 
site act as bittorrent peers, so you end up having only (package bytes 
*1 + bittorrent control * N) bytes cross the WAN to get the package 
bytes to all clients.  A second benefit is having a local cache of 
packages that would generally survive any loss of a single machine.

Now a WAN acceleration vendor like Riverbed would recommend dropping one 
of their boxes in the stream, but I am trying to keep as close to bare 
IP network pipe and clean Linux distribution as possible.

Alan

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