UWO Reznet / P2P Help

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 01:43:23PM -0400, Moniz wrote:
> 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.

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.

Lennart Sorensen
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