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Re: multicast
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Re: multicast |
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Tue, 23 Sep 2003 09:49:47 +1000 (EST) |
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Chris (Ducky) Chapin wrote:
> > http://www.globecom.net/ietf/draft/draft-miller-mftp-spec-03.html
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> From the looks of it, MTFP is sort of what I'm looking for... except the
> handling of the 3000 some-odd files (which could be bundled into maybe a
> few dozen archives). All hosts get one global set, but only need parts of
> others.
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> Also, I'm looking to support hosts that come on and off the network
> (laptops), which I don't think would be that big of a deal, honestly. But
> the section about "NAK Implosions" raises an eyebrow since WAN links could
> make a few hundred hosts spew NAK requests (We have an office in Israel
> whose ISP is routinely DoS'd).
Hmm. Maybe you need to have multiple cfengine servers on your
multiple sites, and use a multilevel thing. :)
> Something to look into in my Copious Amounts of Free Time(tm). =)
Hey, if we add it to mine, we might be able to scrape together a
whole minute :).
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