This is a simple toolkit to send simple (one-line text) messages to any interested parties on the network. notify.pl sends a message to all receivers on the network, which you pass in quotes as a command line argument. monitor.pl prints all the messages it receives, and never exits. waitfor.pl waits for a specific message, prints it and exits. You specify the message on its command line; it will match any message which starts with the specified string. The obvious use for this is event notification. For instance, one host has finished creating a file of some sort, (media, software binary release), and tells the web server to copy the file out of a tmp-directory into a web server directory, over nfs. This is also a useful base model to extend for various purposes, such as gaming and text messaging. This protocol runs connectionless, using the name {1935081472, 1}.