On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 19:44:47 +0100, "John Gifford"
<john_gifford@madasafish.com> wrote:

I used to use a program with the Seti Classic that would cache work units on 
one PC and farm them out to the rest of my home LAN called SetiGate. However 
having come back to Seti I find the 3910 units I had already done have been 
"archived" under seti classic and I'm being urged to use this new one 
BOINC....

OK I'm cool with this as long as I eventually get those 3910 units creditted 
back to me...

But I would like to know if there is a program like SetiGate that can 
distribute WUs to my LAN using BOINC or do I have to make individual 
installations of BOINC for each machine? Or is there indeed a way of 
configuring BOINC so that I can d/l WUs to the one PC and distribute them 
through possibly the "proxy option".

John Gifford 

Those 3910 usints will be credited to your account after Classic
closes for good. If you read carefully you will see that the stats are
as of 15 March 2005 currently.
Currently in Boinc there is no remote caching of units allowed. This
IS  a feature that Berkeley is working on but they have some other
things ahead of it to do first. Currently every machine must connect
to the internet and download and return its own units. There is no
requirement that each machine be CONSTANTLY connected to the net.
Dial-up people would scream if they did that anyway. Which means that
you can have one long wire and plug it into one machine and upload the
old units and get new ones and then unplug the wire and move onto the
next machine etc. I currently have 17 machines crunching for Boinc and
I have one router and one cable modem but each computers thinks it is
on the net all by itself and it all works fine.