Re: [Etherboot-developers] Re: TCP and HTTP support

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>> Or you could do something bittorrent-like.
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>Hmm.   That is an interesting idea.
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>The size of BitTorrent causes my some concern.  As does the fact that
>it is written in python.  Not because of python itself but more because
>people who write good low level code tend to prefer lower level languages.
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>But I think it is worth looking at as I survey the possibilities.

I meant just steal the idea. Clients who don't have the whole file go
asking around for someone who has some or all of the missing pieces. It
was the bitmap of blocks in both slam and bittorrent that triggered my
pattern matching brain cells.