[Udpcast] How to udpcast on G5 Mac?

[Rishi R. Arora]

Hi,

I am interested in finding a solution to multicast a very large 21GB image
onto our new G5 machines.  We have got quite a few to do so ASR via
Firewire is no longer an acceptable solution.  Has anyone ever done this
before and been successful?

Background
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I spoke with an Apple System Engineer in Canada and he has informed me
that Apple doesn't have a multicast solution in place yet. However, the
developers at Apple HQ have heard our cry all the way from here and may be
working on finding a solution possibly in the near future.

Since I found this software last night I haven't had much time to play
with it and workout all the compilation errors (missing and incomplete
libraries for OSX).  We have a Gb network for two brand new labs to be
setup and running in a week.  So I am really trying to find a more robust
solution as the image may be modified during a term for repairs or a
complete overhaul.  For now our plan B is to use Carbon Copy Cloner from
http://www.bombich.com, which is working out to be the only stable
solution.  Its a painfully slow process.  One machine at a time.
Alternatively, we can NetBoot a few machines at a time and use ASR (Apple
Software Restore) but the disk isn't fast enough on our AFP shared drive
to distribute data to more than 4 clients at a time.  This process takes
about 270-300 minutes to dump 21GB image on these clients since each
connection is a unicast.

Any help and comments are appreciated.

-- 
Rishi R. Arora
LAN Administrator
University of Toronto at Mississauga