Years ago I've successfully used multicast for a project. The project has been aborted just after the test of the multicast.
Probably I've that (sparse pieces of) sw ... somewhere. I remember that I wrote them with no problems following the Plan9 man. I also remember successfully tests of one2many e reply2sender in a net of ten boxes.If it could be useful, I'll willing look for that sw in my dead-projects-repository.
adriano