Projects : net/spread

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spread
The Spread Group Communication System, a network toolkit

Spread is a toolkit and daemon that provides multicast and group communications support to applications across local and wide area networks. Spread is designed to make it easy to write groupware, networked multimedia, reliable server, and collaborative work applications.

Spread consists of a library that user applications are linked with, a binary daemon which runs on each computer that is part of the processor group, and various utility and demonstration programs..

Please also see: Spread Concepts LLC, for greater detail.

Installation

On a FreeBSD system;
Using the FreeBSD ports system:
cd /usr/ports/net/spread make install clean
Using the FreeBSD pkg system:
pkg install net/spread