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Date:      Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:25:29 -0500 
From:      "McKenna, Lee" <lmckenna@lodgenet.com>
To:        "'shubha mr'" <shubha_mr@yahoo.com>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: multicast ftp?
Message-ID:  <3EA88113DE92D211807300805FA799420914A1F7@chaplin.lodgenet.com>

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> Does freeBSD support ftp for a multicast address?
> 
> Thanks 
> shubha

It sounds like maybe you are looking for multicast file transfer.  Not sure
about the status of any open source projects to do this, but there are a
couple of commercial implementations - Kencast and Talarian are two I've
evaluated.

Kencast supports linux and freebsd clients, but their "sender" is a Win2K
server (no big deal, its been reliable for us 2+ years running). We use
Kencast to distribute huge multi-gigabyte files via one-way satellite and it
is incredibly reliable, due to the excellent forward error correction
methodology.

Good luck,
--Lee

PS -- As far as open source, search google for "multicast file transfer" and
you'll come up with things like:

"xtp":
http://www.ca.sandia.gov/xtp/xtp.html

"xftp":
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/computing/Telecomm/playground/SCE/xftp.html

"ftp-m":
http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/Dienst/UI/2.0/Describe/ncstrl.ucsd_cse/CS2001-0684



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