> I have tried to copy to the broadcast addres, but it seems not to work.
No, that won't work. rsync requires the client and server to exchange
information. That makes sense, right? At a minimum you'd expect the
server to say "i have these files" and the client to say "send me that one"
:)
If you have multiple clients talking to one server, then the server has to
separate each reply, figure out who gets what, etc. Can't be done in the
current software. Easiest way to do it is to have one server for each
client.
But even if you "fixed" the server, you would still have problems with the
low-level TCP protocol. TCP requires each side to exchange information.
How can a single TCP connection go from A to B and C? It can't.
Broadcasting updates have been the subject of much research, on and off, over
the years. UDP-based protocols are generally the first part of the answer.
(Anyone else remember RDP? :)
/r$
