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Date:      Wed, 21 May 2008 08:25:26 -0400
From:      "Bob McConnell" <rvm@CBORD.com>
To:        "John Pettitt" <jpp@cloudview.com>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Slightly OT - steaming data server software?
Message-ID:  <FF8482A96323694490C194BABEAC24A002C215E9@Email.cbord.com>
In-Reply-To: <4830AE78.6000806@cloudview.com>
References:  <4830AE78.6000806@cloudview.com>

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On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 15:32 -0700, John Pettitt wrote:
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>=20
> Slightly OT but since I'm going to run this on FreeBSD 7 I figured I'd

> ask here ..
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> I have an application where data arrives in what is effectively=20
> continuous stream (actually NMEA messages from an AIS receiver) and
I'd=20
> like to have a server where an arbitrary number of clients can connect

> to a tcp port and receive a copy of the stream.    I could probably=20
> write this in perl without too much work but somebody has to have done

> something similar already - does anybody know of code that does this?=20
> (and yes I know sending the messages as individual udp packets would
be=20
> easier - I'm already doing that internally but it doesn't work for=20
> opening up the data stream to the public).

Already been done. See <http://sourceforge.net/projects/aprsd/>;

Bob McConnell



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