UDPcast 20060917 review

UDPcast project is a file transfer tool that can send data simultaneously to many destinations on a LAN

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 138K Developer: Alain

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UDPcast project is a file transfer tool that can send data simultaneously to many destinations on a LAN. This can for instance be used to install entire classrooms of PC's at once.

The advantage of UDPcast over using other methods (nfs, ftp, whatever) is that UDPcast uses Ethernet's multicast abilities: it won't take longer to install 15 machines than it would to install just 2.

UDPcast is released under the GPL 2.0 license.

UDPcast can be started from the included linuxrc boot disk for OS installations, or from the command line when using it for other purposes.

What's New in This Release:
In pregenerated images, IGMP level is set to v1 in order to accomodate certain switches.
In the menu system, all block devices except ramdisk and floppy are listed, rather than only IDE and SCSI disks.
Logging was improved.
Miscellaneous bugs were fixed, including multiple prompt messages with --rexmit-hello-interval, a buffer overrun on the Windows version, and hdparm failure with exotic device names (cciss/c0d0).