UWO Reznet / P2P Help

[Moniz]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 01:43:23PM -0400, Moniz wrote:
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>>Does anyone know much about the UWO residence setup? I configured my 
>>daughter's PC to use Mandrake 9.1 in her residence at UWO. They are on a 
>>residence network called reznet. All seems to be working fine.
>>
>>Here comes the "except". Within reznet, they seem to have some kind of 
>>p2p for sharing files and I think it's only for the reznet people. Since 
>>it's somewhat restricted, it is very fast. There is a web site for 
>>downloading the required software for file sharing, but of course, it's 
>>a .exe file, and she couldn't make it work. So I get complaints that 
>>Linux can't download files.
>>
>>Does anyone know if a linux p2p program (I use gtk-gnutella at home) 
>>could be used for this? What configuration questions should I be asking 
>>the reznet admin people so that I could duplicate in the linux program?
>>
>>Any guidance would be appreciated.
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>If they really do officially use p2p to share files (I can't imagine
>whos bright idea that was), then perhas mldonkey will work.  It supports
>some 10 or so p2p protocols.
>
>Might work.  Knowing which protocol is really what you need to know.
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I found out that it is a p2p gnutella based protocol. I'll try 
gtk-gnutella unless there's a better one out there.

John.


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