Re: Up2date using BitTorrent

Carwyn Edwards <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.configuration
Message-ID <[email protected]>
seth vidal wrote:

>If you want to spend time hacking on bittorrent I'd very much recommend
>looking at making bittorrent suitable for synchronizing the red
>hat/fedora mirrors as quickly as possible then more/better failover and
>mirroring support in the update tools.
>  
>
+1


Many of the commercial mass updating tools use multicast at the leaf 
nodes to enable parallel installs (e.g. labs of 200+ machines fully 
installed in 15 mins). Combining this with the mDNS, zeroconf stuff 
(with signed packages) would be very nice :-)

Carwyn



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