[Nottingham] Easy linux network multicast?

[Cam]

Martin

> So how can you easily multicast a few GBytes of binary data to multiple
> machines on a LAN?

I can't think of an easy way that's a true multicast. You could look at 
videolan for streaming but your few Gb might have to be an MPEG file.

You could possibly multicast out a file using netcat -u, and receive it 
with netcat -l, but you'd have to

1. start and stop manually
2. verify integrity afterwards using rsync or similar

For a LAN I imagine walking about with a USB-2 hard drive / ipod  would 
be the easiest and most intuitive way to distribute the few Gb :)


-Cam

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