gotella

A gnutella node in go.

To Run

1. Install Go (getting started)
2. Run redis locally (quickstart)
3. go get github.com/ghmeier/gotella
4. go install github.com/ghmeier/gotella
5. Run:

gotella listen_port redis_port discovery_host

listen_port: the port where this gotella node will listen for descriptors (ex: 9000)

redis_port: the port where your local redis server is listening (ex: 6379).

discovery_host: (optional) the ip:port of the first node to connect to the network (ex: 10.27.252.211:8000)

To Request a File:

Type the desired filename into a running instance of gotella and it'll search the network for the desired file. All files will be loaded into the ./public folder of your running gotella node. All files in the folder will be available to be streamed to connected nodes.