On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 10:00:42AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there some marked leader among the open source peer-to-peer > networks?
LimeWire looks like it. > 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. - Firewalls: supports downloading from nodes which are behind NAT and can only initiate connections themselves. - File contents authentication: When possible (depends on the peer's client), files would need to match by a hash value (instead of filename) to be considered "same". LimeWire also stores the hash values of incomplete files on disk so that their download could be safely resumed. - Reliability: Finding initial nodes to talk to is fast. Finding a file isn't guaranteed -- it depends on what nodes you're connected to, ie. you will only see a section of the network at a time. > Also it has to be able to download file PARTS from multiple sources and > combine them into one file Latest LimeWire does that. ================================================================= 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]
