On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there some marked leader among the open source peer-to-peer > networks? > > The scale is in terms of reliability of the network, how it copes > with firewalls, how can someone authenticate the content of the files > etc. > > Also it has to be able to download file PARTS from multiple sources and > combine them into one file
I think the eDonkey2000 network answers those needs. I can't quantify the reliability of the network but it works reliably for me; a firewall would obviously limit you to downloading from / uploading to people who aren't behind firewalls themselves, but otherwise it works; the content is indexed by MD4 hashes and not file names / sizes so it's easy to authenticate. Of course it downloads parts from multiple sources. I can see two potential problems -- one, even though it's a peer-to-peer network, it does work with servers (which technically works very well but may not precisely fit your definition of "peer-to-peer" -- it's not like Gnutella in that sense), and two, there is an open-source client for Windows (http://emule.sf.net/), but I'm not sure that there is one for Linux. And even though you didn't ask -- I don't know about music, but it does have an insane amount of movies available, including lots of classics which are otherwise very hard to find. -- Alex Shnitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.hectic.net/ UIN 188956 PGP 0xEC5D619D / E1 F2 7B 6C A0 31 80 28 63 B8 02 BA 65 C7 8B BA ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
