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[Mike Rambo]

Ben pressed little plastic keys in about this order:
>> >The problem we've discovered is that, even with
>> >Cisco Catalyst switches and 100bTX NICs that,
>> >contrary to the manufacturers claim, we can't
>> >get any more than 12-14 machines to image at the
>> >same time.  Have you had any luck with larger
>> >numbers of machines?  Are there any server prefs
>> >that must be modified, etc. ?
>>
>> It's the same for us - only a dozen or so at a time.

>To me this seems like an obvious application for multicast
>routing.  Do any products do it that way?

IIRC ImageCast is doing the dozen or so it _can_ do using multicast - I'm
pretty sure I saw it on the screen.  Another reason for a Linux way to do
it.