Re: [Gtk-gnutella-devel] wikipedia, gnutella clients.

[Christian B. <chr...@gm...>]

Bill Pringlemeir wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Gnutella_software
 
> client                    : gtk-gnutella
> Hash search               : yes
> Chat[1]                   : no
> Buddy list                : no

Don't know what "Buddy" refers to but gtk-gnutella has ~/.gtk-gnutella/whitelist
which is a sort of "buddy list". We don't aim for being an ICQ clone.

> GGEP version              : ??? (yes?)

I don't think there are different versions. There's some ancient initial version
maybe. Of course it supports GGEP.

> Handles big files (>4GB)  : ??? (yes)

I don't think anyone but gtk-gnutella really supports large files. Fixing the
Gnutella protocol is trivial, fixing parser, storing of filesizes etc. is the
real work.

> Unicode                   : yes

gtk-gnutella and LimeWire are probably the only clients with sufficient Unicode
support.

> UPnP                      : ??? (no)

NIH.

> NAT traversal             : ??? (no)
> NAT port mapping          : ??? (no)

Only the usual UDP hole punching.

> F2F[2]                    : ??? fire wall to fire wall???

Nope. We know how to forward a port, don't we? The F2F protocol is not exactly
state-of-art. As long as *you* can forward a port - assuming you need forwarding
at all - nothing is gained from it.

> TCP Push proxy            : yes
> UDP Push proxy            : yes
> Ultrapeer                 : yes
> GWebCache                 : yes

GWebCaches are deprecated. Nothing to be proud of. Instead of GWebCache
they should rather list "HTTP support", "knows how to handle URLs". Such basic stuff
which everybody gets right, or maybe not?

> UDP Host Cache            : ??? (yes, same cache?)

Of course.

> Other                     : passive search, hsep, filtering?

HSEP is only supported by gtk-gnutella. gtk-gnutella filters liked mad.

-- 
Christian