[p2p-hackers] DHT or unstructured?

[Enzo Michelangeli]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Günther" <mintar at web.de>
To: "Peer-to-peer development." <p2p-hackers at zgp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 4:31 AM
Subject: Re[2]: [p2p-hackers] DHT or unstructured?


> > eDonkey (the network) is an unstructured network, and Overnet (the
> > network) is a DHT network developed by the same others.  However,
> > eDonkey (the software) now uses Overnet (the network) for lookup.
>
> > Likewise, eMule (the software) originally used eDonkey (the
> > unstructured network) but now also uses Kad (the DHT network).
>
> I'm not quite sure if I misunderstood you, but the server-based
> eDonkey network has not been abandoned. It is still used in parallel
> with Overnet (in the eDonkey client) and Kad (in the eMule client). If
> that is what you wanted to say, I'm sorry for wasting your time.

Also, please note that KAD cannot interoperate with Overnet, due to
differences in the protocol. This is regrettable, and due in part to a
(most likely deliberate) lack of assistance by MetaMachine, the original
creators of the closed-source eDonkey, to the eMule developers. Meanwhile,
the team that developed the multi-protocol program mldonlkey managed to
reverse-engineer most of the Overnet protocol, initially with some errors
that did nothing to support their popularity in the eDonkey camp ;-)

Enzo