udpcast
UDPCast allows to send data simultaneously to many destinations on a local net. This can for instance be used to install entire classrooms of PCs at once. The advantage 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 2. The tool comes with a busybox bootdisk for easy loading of the tool. However, udpcast can also be started from the command line of an already installed system, and can be used for other purposes than just system installation.
| Tags | Communications File Sharing Internet FTP Archiving Mirroring Installation/Setup Networking Systems Administration Utilities |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 19 Nov 2008 08:03
Changes: Statistics are printed less often (only once every half second or at a configurable interval). A workaround was made for an lseek bug on Linux. A longer DHCP timeout is used in order to deal with slow switches.
- 02 Jun 2007 13:42
Changes: The kernel was upgraded to 2.6.21.3 and busybox was upgraded to 1.5.1. The code was adapted to Solaris 10 x86 by adding includes and configure checks. A patch was made to fix parallel make and make DESTDIR=/tmp/xxx install. gcc4 warnings were addressed.
- 23 Mar 2007 05:04
Changes: This release fixes a couple of typos in socklib.c. Ports above 32768 now work correctly.
- 06 Mar 2007 14:21
Changes: An issue with UDP receiving to stdout has been fixed.
- 18 Feb 2007 08:20
Changes: Line-counting for modules.pcimap was fixed for the embedded system. The documentation for the --broadcast flag of udpcast was fixed.
