On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 04:40:38PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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).
Or you could just use bittorrent. The server runs a tracker and everyone cooperatively downloads chunks. Same kind of idea, but it doesn't require multicast support (which may or may not exist in various networks).
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