Thomas Krause wrote: [snip] > The protocol used by bittorrent is based on HTTP, but still can only be used > with programs that support bittorrent explicitly. > > The specific binaries used are bttrack (tracker) and btlaunchmany (seeder) > on the server side. On the client side I'm not sure.
On the client side we use the same BitTorrent python binaries included in the initrd and frozen in ELF executables (by cx_freeze) to optimize for size. See the chapter "Choosing a BitTorrent implementation" in http://download.systemimager.org/pub/docs/SystemImager-LinuxTag-2007-paper.pdf for details. -Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
