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English => aMule Help => Topic started by: matt-achine on April 23, 2006, 04:48:23 PM

Title: Kad set-up for "new meats" just arriving from eMule
Post by: matt-achine on April 23, 2006, 04:48:23 PM

Anyone suggest a forum geared more to "new meat" - (i.e. for "the simple-minded" user level?) Most of the aMule Forums I've been able to find tend to be more developer-oriented.

Got aMule set up fine but as an ex-emule, not as familiar with Kad connecting. Did some searching and all I found in "my country's language" was:

"...Since Kademlia is a decentralized network, it removes the bottleneck that was previously caused by the need for servers (though Lugdunum has done great work in reducing this bottleneck). Now, instead of connecting to a server, you just connect to a client (with a known IP-address and port), which supports the network Kademlia. This is called the Boot Strapping...."

Don't know how to "just connect to a client (with a known IP-address and port)..."

i.e. did a search, using only KAD network - queued the file (did I miss the "known IP" data in the results??, which I then needed to enter into that "Bootstrap / New Node" form on the Networks screen?). Tried to find some kind of IP by doing a right click "File Details"?????. Don't know from where the "known IP" is obtained?

Can anyone point me towards any guide / FAQ / Tut. on the new user / simple-minded level in setting up Kad for "..now you just connect to a new client with a known IP-address and port.." (i.e. where do you find the IP address and port for the file, so that "it becomes known to me"??? (I'm not a developer - just someone who wants to enjoy aMule).

Thanks

Title: Re: Kad set-up for "new meats" just arriving from eMule
Post by: darksidex on April 28, 2006, 11:16:48 PM

In networks option, you should see two tabs, one for ED2K and another for Kad. In kad tab there should be a url (this is what I have: http://download.overnet2000.de/nodes.dat), and in it's left there is a botton with an arrow as icon.

If you make click over this button a new list of kad nodes will be download. Then you should use the botton "bootstrap from known clients", and try some downloads. After a while you should be fully connected through Kad network.

If after doing this you can't connect to kademlia, don't worry. Use ed2k network, and after being connected for a while try again "bootstrap from known clients"

This is only to get some kad nodes (ips and ports of people using kad network). After some days using kad, you won't have any problems, and which is better, you won't need ed2k network (I dont't use it at all, 100% kad user ;))

Title: Thanks
Post by: matt-achine on April 29, 2006, 04:07:59 PM

Thanks so much  :baby: - I really appreciate the time and effort you made to respond - will try right now and looking forward to aMuling