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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Richard Sharpe wrote:

> Multicast! BootIX (nee InCom) have support for this in their BootROMS. it
> might not be hard to hack into Etherboot et al.

bproc now uses multicast for distributing new kernels and init ram disks,
if you want to see an example. It's on sourceforge.

ron


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