monitering and management of gnutella network

[orchidlu]

Hi everyone,
I am new to the Gnutella network, but very interested in learning the behaviors of Gnutella clients. I am wondering if anyone know existing tools (like crawlers) that will crawling around the network(or a portion of it) and observe how Gnutella network behaves, what's the rate of successfully searches and downloads, do all Gnutella clients behave as they are supposed to according to the Gnutella protocol(ie: sending and responding ping, pong msgs etc.)
Any reply or help is greatly appreciated,
Thanks

[tiagonmas]

Hi!
Take a look at

->A Quantitative Analysis of the Gnutella Network Traffic
www.cs.ucr.edu/~csyiazti/courses/ cs204/project/gnuDC.pdf

->Mapping the Gnutella Network- Macroscopic Properties of Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems
www.cs.rice.edu/Conferences/IPTPS02/128.pdf

->GnuMap Project--Creating maps of the full Gnutella Network
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/articles/auto/08192002d

Hope it helps.
Tiago Andrade e Silva

[WattsTech]

It is too bad that Gnutella could not be monitored by mods+ like OpenNap servers can. But Gnutella holds A LOT more users than ANY OpenNap server.