Re: [Gzz] Overnet

[Vesa Kaihlavirta]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 08:28:17PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> Quoting Vesa Kaihlavirta <address@hidden>:
> 
> > > when we talked on IRC, you said that Overnet is available as Free 
> > > Software. Googling that, I can find no statements to that effect (and 
> > > the download from the Overnet page is binary-only)... can you give 
> > > references?
> > 
> > Mldonkey has an implementation of Overnet. 
> > 
> > http://www.nongnu.org/mldonkey/
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Could you clarify, that is this implementation of Overnet or ed2k ? The
> difference between these two is that there are both clients and server in the
> ed2k network. In Overnet, however, there is only overnet clients (servants)
> which require no server connection upon client bootstrap when joining to 
> network.

Mldonkey began as just an ed2k-client, but it now supports other networks
as well -- Overnet being one of them.


So, the answer: both.

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V.K.