Originally Posted to the 318 TechJournal 318 has decided to open source our ASR Setup Tool, which can now be found at http://asrsetup.sourceforge.net. The ASR Setup Tool is built as a wrapper for the asr command line suite from Apple. The description from SourceForge: Developed by 318 Inc., ASR Setup Tool is an application for setting up Apple Software Restore (“ASR”). In the context of the ASR Setup Tool, ASR is used for setting up a multicast stream that can then be leveraged for imaging Mac OS X computers. We hope you enjoy!
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Multicast ASR? There's an App for that!
It seems like playing an asr stream is still a bit of a conundrum for many people. Apple has added the ability to leverage asr streams in NetBoot images in Mac OS X Server (aka NetRestore), but no tool for actually serving up a stream. That’s why I decided to write a little app to wrap your asr and fire up a quick and dirty multicast asr stream. When you open it, it will ask you a couple of questions and let you select the dmg file that you’ll be serving up. Main points, the data rate, which you can see here. Then the multicast address that your stream will…