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I was under the impression that coda used multicast to broadcast updates, but I'm not sure this is happening. I noticed there is a command: vutil -mc 1, that is supposed to turn it on. Is this stable? Where is it used? When a client does a write, does it multicast it to the entire realm (if possible)? Or is it just when a server is sending updates to multiple replicas? Or can a server use multicast to notify all nearby clients of a change to a file? There seem to be plenty of places, particularly in the RPC2 documentation, that talk about multicast, but none that seem to say exactly how it is used or when. If it isn't set up to be used by default, I'd be curious to know why this is the case. Was it unreliable? -- Patrick Walsh eSoft Incorporated 303.444.1600 x3350 http://www.esoft.com/Received on 2005-05-06 12:16:22