Re: Using multicast for security updates
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Neal Murphy wrote:
> On Thursday 23 February 2006 17:05, Michael Loftis wrote:
> > Good idea except this requires large scale rollout of mutlicast, which
> > AFAIK, hasn't happened.
>
> I thought it had progressed further than being a curiosity. Is its current
> scale enough to make a difference?
No, at least not in the Internet. Multicast file transfers for security
updates could be useful in a large organization, but only if they have slow
WAN links.
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