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To: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
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Subject: Re: rwhod in /etc/rc 
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Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 11:05:28 PDT
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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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