Interesting, indeed. Looks like multicast is available on some networks: http://www.multicasttech.com/status/mbgp.sum
But the best place to ask this type of question might be the debian-admin or debian-mirrors mailing list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Has this concept been considered? > >Instead of having all users connect and DL their own copies of security >updates (which requires tremendous bandwidth), would it be possible to use >multicast to 'broadcast' the updates. The thought is that updates could be >distributed without saturating the server's link(s). > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
