Thread: Gnutella proxy?
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Old November 17th, 2002
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Default Re: We already have that...

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Originally posted by linuxrocks
This feature is already in most of today's Gnutella clients. It's called an 'Ultrapeer'. You set one computer as the Ultrapeer and set the other clients as leaves and you connect the leaves to the Ultrapeer...
So how does one go about connecting leaves to an ultrapeer, do I just type the ultrapeer's ip address into the connect box?

Also, wouldn't passing messages through this 'server' add to the number of hops and so reduce the visible horizon. Searches don't travel as far and would return fewer hits.

Last edited by Did; November 17th, 2002 at 06:28 PM.
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