A new alpha release of udpcast is ready on http://udpcast.linux.lu/20030524
It fixes a bug with network modules which were not directly in the drivers/net directory, but rather in one of its subdirectories. Impacted were e100, e1000, tulip, some pcmcia drivers, and some wireless drivers.
Moreover, the new version now supports the lzop compressor, which is faster than gzip.
There is now also support for ipmac files to make it possible to "automatically" attribute IP addresses to the various receivers even without a DHCP server.
For this, simply place an ipmac.txt file into the root of the boot floppy, whith the mac to ip mapping.
Example:
# Udpcast IP/Mac association file 00:5B:56:4b:42:9a 10.0.0.176 00:50:56:40:42:97 10.0.0.177 00:50:56:40:42:98 10.0.0.178
This means that the machine with the MAC address 00:5B:56:4b:42:9a should get IP 10.0.0.176, etc.
Have fun,
Alain