Would probably work a lot better with a crossover cable w/ 100BT eth. I've heard OF netcat but never used it. Opens some interesting possibilities. :-) sim "Austad, Jay" wrote: > You could probably multicast it, but if for some reason a packet was dropped > to one of the clones, it wouldn't get resent, and you'd be missing data. > > It takes about 1.5 hours to clone a system with an 18GB drive on 100Mb > ethernet. Actually, it's probably faster than that, but I'm going over a > trunk between two switches that has other traffic on it also.