rmcast mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• mcastproxy
• rmchat

Projektgeschichte

The official archived project page explains that IP multicast saves bandwidth by sending one packet across each physical link, but that UDP-based multicast lacks reliability. RML was developed to provide a reliable multicast environment and was distributed under the QPL.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The project appears to have been a niche academic and systems-networking library rather than a broad user-facing tool. Homebrew packaging keeps the library and the `mcastproxy` and `rmchat` executables installable for legacy multicast experiments.

Wie es verwendet wird

Package-level usage centers on the reliable multicast library and the shipped command-line programs `mcastproxy` and `rmchat`; the official project page says the release tarballs included a manual.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

rmcast is notable to package maintainers as a preserved multicast library with old release tarballs, bundled manual material, and QPL licensing. It represents the kind of specialized networking code that survives mostly through Unix package collections.

Zeitleiste

• 2004: Version 1.5 released on 2004-09-26.
• 2005: Version 1.6 released on 2005-12-14.
• 2006: Versions 1.7 and 1.8 released.
• 2008: Version 1.9 released on 2008-05-01.
• 2009: Version 2.0.0 released on 2009-08-06.

Related projects

• Related technologies include IP multicast, UDP, reliable multicast protocols, `mcastproxy`, and `rmchat`.

Quellen

• https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/rmcast.json
• https://web.archive.org/web/20250722003825/https://www.land.ufrj.br/tools/rmcast/rmcast.html
• source_facts.executables