[schoen@loyalty.org: Re: multicast file transfer advertisement: bccpi.py and bccpo.py]

[Kragen Javier Sitaker]

----- Forwarded message from Seth David Schoen <schoen at loyalty.org> -----

From: Seth David Schoen <schoen at loyalty.org>
To: Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen at canonical.org>
Subject: Re: multicast file transfer advertisement: bccpi.py and bccpo.py
X-Modulation: 8/VSB Is Not A Crime

Kragen Javier Sitaker writes:

> This is a pair of Python programs to use to copy files around on the
> LAN. The receiver uses IP multicast on the LAN to advertise its
> interest in the file; the sender then connects to it via TCP to send
> it.

Have you seen npush and npoll, an earlier implementation of this idea
in C?  It was really convenient, actually.  We shipped them on
some versions of LNX-BBC.

-- 
Seth David Schoen <schoen at loyalty.org> | Qué empresa fácil no pensar en
     http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/   | un tigre, reflexioné.
     http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/     |            -- Borges, El Zahir

----- End forwarded message -----