Re: is there Multicast FTP for Linux?

Allen K. Smith (lazlor@stardust.com)
Wed, 02 Jun 1999 15:54:41 -0700


You might try imm:

ftp://ftp.hawaii.edu/paccom/imm-3.5a1/imm.source.tar.Z

It was designed to reliably multicast images from one system to many, but
it would do what you want.

At 03:15 PM 6/2/99 -0500, Bret Hughes wrote:
>We are looking at an application that would need to transfer files over
>a relatively slow link (ppp dialup) from one lan segment to another.
>These files need to go to multiple machines. Is there a way to do a
>multicast FTP sort of deal to accomplish this? We were originally going
>to send the file to one machine and then transfer it to the others that
>need it but for non technical reasons this cannot be done.
>
>I see that lucent has a product called e-cast in beta but it is only for
>solaris and win95. I was sort of hoping there was an open source
>solution out there.
>
>Any comments welcome.
>
>Bret Hughes
>
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