Please search the forum. It has been answered many times.

Ultrapeer: high bandwidth and uptime node who redirect queries from other Ultrapeers to leaves with the files being searched for. Routes all Gnutella traffic.

Leaf: low bandwith or low uptime node, receives very few of Gnutella traffic.

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