Re: [Etherboot-developers] [RFC] Multicast reception....

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Other points, that occur to me.

On testing.  I have already tested on a 15 node test cluster, and the
code will be regularly tested, and used on this cluster.  In
production it will be regularly used for installs on various small
(4-64) node clusters.  And in a month I can start testing on a 1000
node cluster as it is built up. 

Currently the protocol is going by the name SLAM.
Scalable Local Area Multicast.  Plus that is what it does to your
network when it is transmitting data :)

Slam seems to be close to one of those simple points where you gain
power because you are so simple.

The biggest advantage of the unicast channel for the clients is a
sysadmin only has to worry about a bad server going crazy with
multicast data, not the clients.

The biggest downside at the moment is there is only a GPL'd client and
not an open source server for SLAM.  (The best I could arrange).  But
with the protocol details out there and a relatively simple protocol I
can't imagine writing a server will be too hard.

Eric