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Udpcast: http://www.udpcast.linux.lu/ http://www.udpcast.linux.lu/ Can do this and other related useful things, including multicast of a file to N machines in
by kylecordes 14y ago
Udpcast:
http://www.udpcast.linux.lu/ http://www.udpcast.linux.lu/
Can do this and other related useful things, including multicast of a file to N machines in parallel. Don't let the UDP bother you: it implements retry/checksum/etc on top of datagrams.
It's been around a few years, and is probably already in your distro.
It can pipe, as well as copy files, I wrote about it some time ago:
http://kylecordes.com/2008/multicast-your-db-backups-with-udpcast http://kylecordes.com/2008/multicast-your-db-backups-with-ud...
- diginux 14y agoThis is great tool and nice article. The only slightly additional requirement for this tool is you know the name of the file being sent. I actually was thinking of making this optional (for the same reasons they require it, to allow many different files). I've added a link for udpcast to my readme as an alternative. Thanks!
- julian37 14y agoThere's also UFTP, it doesn't require the receiver to know the file name. (But it is different from your implementation in a number of ways, most importantly it transfers all data via UDP.) http://www.tcnj.edu/~bush/uftp.html http://www.tcnj.edu/~bush/uftp.html
- songgao 14y agoAnd it's multicast, which saves a lot of bandwidth and makes it faster :-)