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1 StuartYeates 1 Communicating or interacting with equals.
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4 StuartYeates 3 In networking terms PeerToPeer means that each node can potentially communicate directly with any other node.
2 JohnMcPherson 4
5 The [TCP/IP] protocols were designed to allow any machine to communicate with any other machine, but these days the increasing use of [NAT], dynamic [IP] address allocation, and draconian traffic filtering is creating a class of "consumers" who can initiate connections to servers but not receive incoming connections.
6 This makes it harder to have peer-to-peer communcations such as voice/video chat without going through a central server, which by definition is not peer-to-peer.
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9 Often used to refer to PeerToPeer file-sharing networks/software.
3 StuartYeates 10
4 StuartYeates 11 The problem with pure PeerToPeer Networks is that it can be very hard for newcomers to find peers to communicate with. Generally the solution is to have a few very well known nodes which newcomers can connect to and explore the network from, but this solution immediately privileges the few well-known nodes and they cease to be peers of the other nodes. This can be partly offset by having a very large number of well known nodes, often all the known stable nodes when a release is produced.
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5 ChrisLowth 14 !See also..
15 * BitTorrent
16 * CategoryNetworking
17 * FirewallingPeerToPeer
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