27 Aug
2002
27 Aug
'02
5:54 p.m.
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