Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 11:05:28 PDT From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> Cc: FREEBSD-CURRENT-L <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: rwhod in /etc/rc Message-ID: <95May25.110532pdt.49871@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 May 95 07:28:21 PDT." <Pine.BSI.3.91.950525221237.26962K-100000@leo>
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In message <Pine.BSI.3.91.950525221237.26962K-100000@leo> you write: >I noticed that the boot files >toss in some comment about rwhod being a "time waster" or a >"performance pig" or "will saturate networks with many hosts". >FreeBSD's /etc/rc and /etc/sysconfig don't give any warning (although >it is turned off by default). The multicast version of rwhod (which apparently never made it out of Stanford) might help; since FreeBSD "just does" multicast it might be a good idea to include an rwhod which has the option of using multicast. (Multicast also lets you run rwho over several subnets, which may actually be a bad thing, but... =) Bill
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