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Revision: 768
          http://assorted.svn.sourceforge.net/assorted/?rev=768&view=rev
Author:   yangzhang
Date:     2008-05-08 23:54:47 -0700 (Thu, 08 May 2008)

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more diplomatic readme

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 Overview
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-UDP Prober is a simple program that takes a list of hosts and probes the entire
-list periodically.  This was an exercise in being "C++-ish," which meant using
-boost libraries rather than C platform libraries---in particular, it was an
-excuse for me to play with boost::asio.  I tried to keep things simple, but the
-end result is rather more complicated and verbose than I had anticipated.
-boost::asio seems to make writing even the simplest of network applications an
-ordeal.
+UDP Prober is a simple program that takes a list of hosts also running UDP
+Prober and pings the entire list periodically (and also listens for probes),
+recording the latencies measured.  This was an exercise in being "C++-ish,"
+which meant using boost libraries rather than C platform libraries---in
+particular, it was an excuse for me to play with boost::asio.  I tried to keep
+things simple, but the end result is rather more complicated and verbose than I
+had anticipated.  boost::asio seems to have some difficulty scaling down to
+simpler applications.  It's probably fine as a portable, very-low-level C++
+interface to sockets and as a framework for asynchronous programming.  Anyway,
+here.
 
 Setup
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