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From: Fred.van.Kempen@microwalt.nl (Fred N. van Kempen)
Subject: [pups] It all works!!
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:54:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7AD18F04B62B7440BE22E190A3F7721401FF7E@mwsrv04.microwalt.nl> (raw)

Ian King wrote:

> > I suggest you now find a multi-port beer card, insert that into a
free
> > slot, add /dev/beer to the kernel, and abuse it lots... :)
> > 
> > (rumor is, that 2.9bsd has much more space available for /dev/beer
> > buffers, though, so if 2.11 doesn't allow enough of it, just take
the
> > plunge and downgrade to 2.9... ;-)
> > Should he implement uubp?  
Well, that's kinda store-and-forward.  A bit dated, innit?  Why
not go the modern way and go straight for the splattering-type
mbdp?  For those who dunno: Multicast Beer Distribution Protocol.

One catch... given the kind of stuff we want distributed, we'd better
not have any (memory and/or session) leaks...

--f



             reply	other threads:[~2002-08-27 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-27 11:54 Fred N. van Kempen [this message]
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2002-08-23 10:15 Fred N. van Kempen
2002-08-22 13:04 Kevin Murrell
2002-08-27 11:12 ` Robin Birch

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