UDPcast is a file transfer tool that can send data simultaneously to many destinations on a LAN. This can for instance be used to install entire classrooms of PCs at once. The advantage of UDPcast over using other methods (nfs, ftp, whatever) is that UDPcast uses the User Datagram Protocol's
multicast
In computer networking, multicast is group communication where data transmission is addressed to a group of destination computers simultaneously. Multicast can be one-to-many or many-to-many distribution. Multicast should not be confused with ...
abilities: it won't take longer to install 15 machines than it would to install just 2.
By default this protocol operates on the
UDP port 9000. This default behaviour can be changed during the boot stage.
See also
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List of disk cloning software
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People
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Organizations
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* SC Germania List, German rugby union ...
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