P2P on Linux?

[Carloswill]

Is there a popular known P2P network on Linux? I have some videos that are too large to send via mail and have a group 30-45 users that transfer back and fourth.

Also wont mind looking up some MP3's as well.

[Silent1]

why not setup an ftp server, proftpd; or bittorrent is another option.

[Carloswill]

no port 21, sorry

are there no P2P networks?

[Silent1]

with proftpd you can make it be any port you want, i'm almost positive you can do that. You can also try, limewire (http://www.limewire.com/english/content/home.shtml) which has a linux port.

[Flak Pyro]

Try amule its a emule clone for linux, you can apt-get it if you have freshrpms on your repositories list.

[Carloswill]

Flak - I will try this on TH. May only day off this week. Thanks!

[Snugglebear]

Consider sftp for security's sake. Having plaintext username & password combos flying around is bad form. If you have a recent version of ssh, you have sftp, and there are plenty of clients around to hook into it.

[ameoba]

I'd say BitTorrent is definately the way to go for this.

And might I recomend Azureus (goole is your friend) as a client... While it is a java program, it's slicker than catshit & has a built in tracker which would greatly simplify getting things rolling.

[BillLeeLee]

I'll recommend BT too; with a few seeds with decent uploading speeds, you can pass the files around pretty fast.

And again, I'll agree with Azureus like amoeba says; Azureus is a powerful BT client and is actually pretty fast. I'd never think I'd recommend a program written in Java besides Eclipse. :p

[Carloswill]

lime wire, is this good? I hear a lot about it but nobody here said anything

[BillLeeLee]

I don't use Limewire myself, but it uses the Gnutella network and I hear it's pretty good.

I still think Bittorrent would be easier and faster if everyone was downloading the files en masse.

[Carloswill]

I am new to linux so lets say I want to use bit torrent for Fedora Linux, what is step one? Is there an RPM I can install? I do I download and install bit torrent?

[BillLeeLee]

http://azureus.sourceforge.net - they have dirextions on how to do a manual install of azureus bt client.

I think if you use YUM (Fedora has the YUM package manager in addition to RPM), you can install azureus too by making yum install it. I don't know yum so I can't really help there.

[Carloswill]

Thanks - worth a shot.

[doh]

I'd do bittorrent for it.

[Carloswill]

Thanks