[GLLUG] p2p related

Brian Hoort hoortbri at msu.edu
Wed Jun 11 09:20:13 EDT 2003


At 07:35 PM 6/3/2003, Matt Graham wrote:
>eDonkey (obsolete) http://edonkey2000.com/ [*]
>Overnet (successor to eDonkey) http://overnet.com/ [*]
>mlDonkey (Open Overnet/eDonkey clone) http://mldonkey.org/
>Gnutella (yuck) http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net/
>XNap (Napster clone, uses OpenNap network) http://xnap.sourceforge.net/
>GiFT (FastTrack clone?) http://gift.sourceforge.net/
>
>More exist, but that'll get you started.  The [*] marked clients consist
>of 2 parts, a statically-linked command-line "core", and an Open GTK+
>frontend.  Read the docs.  Make sure you throttle outgoing bandwidth to
>a max of ~80% of your upload cap; this'll make it possible to do other
>Net stuff while the P2P app is running.  IIRC, everything except
>Gnutella can do that.

I tried Overnet a few nights ago and it runs but it's firewall test claims 
that I am firewalled. I am dialing in to MSU through IPCOP. Am I doing this 
to myself, or is MSU blocking it?



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