Welcome to the Gnutella Developer Forum. Some suggested topics of conversation just to get things rolling: * Why do Gnutella downloads fail? Is it a case of...
gdf_sysop@...
Jan 17, 2001 12:13 am
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Hello everyone, this is Vincent Falco from Free Peers, Inc. I would like to introduce myself, I'll be participating in the forum and providing my thoughts and...
info@...
Jan 17, 2001 3:09 am
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... Incorrect configuration of the software is a major problem. Another problem is the connection backlog limit for certain Windows operating systems. The...
info@...
Jan 17, 2001 3:15 am
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Hi all. Greg Bildson from LimeWire here. Our original goal was to have a private forum for active Gnutella developers without distractions. I don't know how...
Greg Bildson
gbildson@...
Jan 17, 2001 4:56 am
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So, the number one problem with the Gnutella net right now seems to be download failures. For reasons that I won't repeat at this time (see...
Greg Bildson
gbildson@...
Jan 17, 2001 5:01 am
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hi, this is josh from toadnode i've got just a few suggestions for the forum that might help eliminate some confusions. is there a way we can list the clients...
kane@...
Jan 17, 2001 12:09 pm
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... functioning ... Hi, this is Steve Bryan from the Mactella development effort at cxc. I'd like to report that I have witnessed the push capability working ...
Steve Bryan
steve_bryan@...
Jan 17, 2001 5:35 pm
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File indexes that change can be a problem. There are a couple of solutions to this. One technique, is to check the filename on the request against the index....
info@...
Jan 17, 2001 6:53 pm
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Hi all, I'm John, Gnucleus is my clone, and I'm interested in working with everyone to keep our clients compatible. The number one reason downloads fail is...
swabby@...
Jan 17, 2001 8:12 pm
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... Here's the LimeWire proposal. Let the bytes of a GUID G be labelled G [0]..G[15]. All bytes are unsigned. Let a "short" be a 2 byte little-endian**...
crohrs@...
Jan 17, 2001 9:50 pm
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... I don't consider that a failure. Usually when you get a busy response, this is a good thing it means the computer is responsive. At that point the user...
info@...
Jan 17, 2001 11:46 pm
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... from ... do ... I realize my proposals (2) and (3) contradict; ignore (3). The high 4 bits of the checksum should be reserved for future use. Current ...
Christopher Rohrs
crohrs@...
Jan 18, 2001 12:05 am
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... Hey, Christopher, you think it is easy to write such a long reply? :-) ... Hmm.. A first day of the forum and already we have a protocol change proposal -...
Oso
osokin@...
Jan 18, 2001 12:54 am
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... The result doesn't have to be bulletproof, because the penalty for collision is that the old client gets a search result. No big deal, it will be quite...
info@...
Jan 18, 2001 2:15 am
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... Oh, that's right - I sort of assumed that I'm still on the gnutellang forum and forgot that this forum was created from the different mailing list and that...
Serguei Osokine
osokin@...
Jan 18, 2001 3:19 am
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From my understanding, this forum should be dedicated to our client's compatibility with each other. We should not be modifying the protocol, especially here,...
swabby@...
Jan 18, 2001 3:59 am
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... Yes we should. I would like to see some cosmetic modifications to the protocol so that some vendor-specific data can be added and passed in an agreed upon...
Vincent Falco
info@...
Jan 18, 2001 4:45 am
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Okay, we have been hinting at a proposal. I don't think we are ready for it unless we can agree on the magnitude of the problem though. Users are having...
Greg Bildson
gbildson@...
Jan 18, 2001 4:57 am
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... side ... And the best part about 3) is that it is the easiest to code with the least risk of introducing a defect. It can also bring back those users that...
Vincent Falco
info@...
Jan 18, 2001 5:17 am
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... so ... It appears that after the first day or so, there are representatives present in this forum from the following companies/products BearShare Clip2 ...
GDF Sysop
gdf_sysop@...
Jan 18, 2001 7:16 am
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... is ... several ... Steve, thanks for your comments. For the sake of those (including us) who may not have heard it elsewhere, can you relay the reasoning ...
Clip2
gdf@...
Jan 18, 2001 7:43 am
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... Is this guaranteed to happen, or is it just a possibility? In other words, if there are no changes to the upload directories, why does the index differ /...
Clip2
gdf@...
Jan 18, 2001 7:47 am
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... Why not let the old clients connect but simply return to each of their search requests just two hits such as "Gnutella v0.56 clients are not supported" and...
Ben Houston
ben@...
Jan 18, 2001 7:52 am
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Hi guys, I'm happy to see that most of you work on this forum for immediate enhancements of the gnutella network and are interested in working on gPulp for the...
lambla@...
Jan 18, 2001 9:36 am
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... serving ... Also, if your download and shared directories are the same, Gnutella 0.56 does not share downloaded files until you rescan or restart. This...
crohrs@...
Jan 18, 2001 4:03 pm
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... Sounds like a good idea to me. Of course, I'm NG/gPulp-biased to begin with... :-) Best wishes - Oso....
Serguei Osokine
osokin@...
Jan 18, 2001 4:48 pm
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... Okay, I'm not Steve (maybe he has other reasons), but for me personally, the reason I thought the original idea was to broadcast the PUSH is that it has...
Serguei Osokine
osokin@...
Jan 18, 2001 5:20 pm
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... Oh, absolutely - perhaps I did not make myself sufficiently clear. In fact, I rather like these extensions of yours myself. I was arguing against first, a...
Serguei Osokine
osokin@...
Jan 18, 2001 5:40 pm
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We wrote up some of our thoughts on what makes for healthy behaviour of a Gnutella servent. It is more focused on medium term changes but perhaps worth a...
Greg Bildson
gbildson@...
Jan 18, 2001 6:02 pm
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Hi Sebastien. We are sensitive to your wishes. I think us developers would like to think and talk for a while before we start coming out with press releases. ...
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