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Re: is there such a thing as TCP broadcast?

Subject:Re: is there such a thing as TCP broadcast?
Posted by:"Finn Tolderlund" (no@spam.dk)
Date:Fri, 26 May 2006 07:47:38

"eric" <eric@example.com> skrev i en meddelelse
news:4475c510$2@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Using TCP, what is the prefered method to handle a situation like
> above so that data can be broadcasted rather then a unique
> transfer to each device?

A suggestion:
Broadcast a short message to all devices, perhaps using UDP, to inform them
that new data is available.
Then let each device fetch the data from a FTP server.
--
Finn Tolderlund

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