Hi Alexandru,

I think I can answer Q.2

You can store the hard disk images by running *udp-receiver.exe *in the network on a computer running Windows. Then, you can use *udp-sender.exe* to send this image whenever you want.

Now you need have some kind of trigger mechanism so that *udp-sender.exe* is activated automatically and I believe that can be done using some kind of shell scripting which is run everytime a TFTP request is answered from the udpcast server (assuming that the clients are booting from network using PXE). Give or take a 2 minutes sleep in the script, before the server starts sending the image so that the client can boot up and be ready for receiving.

Wish you all the best for the project!

Regards, Samar

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Alexandru Juncu alexandrujuncu@gmail.comwrote:

Hello.

I am student of Computer Science and this semester I am doing a project for my degree based on UDPCast. I am also a teaching assistant I have been using UDPCast in all our lab room where we have our courses.

What we do now is install an image on a computer in a room, an then copy the harddrive/partition over multicast. The thing is that we want a server that would hold many images with version history.

What my project has to to is allow the unicast copy of a computer image to this server, and then, when needed, using a client that would activate UDPCast on the server as a sender and using normal UDPCast as receiver on the rest of the computers.

This is the basic idea, and should be rather simple, but I would really appreciate the help anyone can give.

My questions until now:

1. Is the source for the Custom udpcast boot media configurator available?
2. Can i set up the server to multicast from a file?

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