MLdonkey - 2.5-3

Formerly, MLdonkey was a Linux client for the eDonkey network, built from a reverse-engineered version of the protocol. Now, it is also able to connect to multiple networks such as Overnet, gnutella, BitTorrent, Fasttrack, Direct-Connect, Soulseek. It is written in Objective-Caml and runs on most Unix platforms.

The eDonkey Network is a network specialized in sharing really big files (between 0 to 1.4 GB). This network offers a set of characteristics that cannot be found on other networks:

• Files can be downloaded from different sources at the same time.
• Files are identified by uniq identifiers (MD4) that can be used to find new sources for a file.
• Files are checked using checksums, and chunks (9MB) that are corrupted are downloaded again.
• Files chunks can be downloaded in any order.
• Files are shared as soon as a checked chunk has been downloaded, to speed up the spreading of files.

Overnet is a network using the same download protocol as edonkey, but a different search/localisation protocol, that doesn't need servers.

MLdonkey runs as a daemon, in the background, that can run, downloading and sharing files, 24 hours a day. You can interact with your mldonkey daemon, either locally or remotely, by a telnet interface, a WEB interface or a GTK GUI. Other GUIs for our platform have also been created for mldonkey, you can find all the latest Macintosh mldonkey stuff on this homepage: http://homepage.mac.com/michelmoreau/