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p2psim: Roll Your Own P2P Protocol

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-this-does-error-checking-and-this-is-the-31337-part dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "p2psim is a free, multi-threaded, discrete event simulator developed at MIT to evaluate and investigate p2p protocols. You can quite easily add your own p2p protocol and compare it with others to make sure it runs well before you write the real thing. p2psim runs in Linux and FreeBSD."

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  1. Interesting parallel by TheBrownShow · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hmmm, both p2p and "rolling your own" are two things that people could make a lot of money off of if they just made it legal :-)

  2. How complete is it? by DJProtoss · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mean, does it contain a simulated RIAA that will come and sue you for distribution of copyrighted simulated material?

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    1. Re:How complete is it? by dcphoenix · · Score: 2, Funny

      Why bother with a simulated one? I'm sure the real Gestapo.....er.......RIAA will be glad to lend their 'services' to the simulation.

    2. Re:How complete is it? by Brad+Mace · · Score: 2, Funny
      I mean, does it contain a simulated RIAA that will come and sue you for distribution of copyrighted simulated material?

      Yeah. It's not so bad though. You can pay them off with monopoly money.
  3. P2P Simulation by ospirata · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does p2psim simulates RIAA suing you? This would be the "de facto" p2p simulator.

    1. Re:P2P Simulation by garcia · · Score: 3, Funny

      no, it just sends you a form letter via email demanding your current life savings and says that if you respond to their blackmail they will leave you alone.

  4. What about the cost? by the+real+darkskye · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do you have to pay a virtual SCO for every virtual linux node on the virutal network?

    Its a virtual post, but I have karma to burn off.

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  5. New p2p protocol: "In Person" by 192939495969798999 · · Score: 1, Funny

    I have a great new P2P protocol. You get instant exchange of 10's of CD's at a time. It's called "in person". Generally, you have to provide money to the other person, e-mailing back and forth, etc. They burn you the CD's you want, and then you meet "in person", and exchange the money for their time in producing the CD's for you. It's great!

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  6. Re:They need to implement older protos by aardwolf204 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yay, we have networks simulating networks. Kazaa Reloaded !

    Once I was playing The Sims (Hot Date I believe) and I went to town to pick up some flowers and in one of the stores I found a copy of The Sims. So I had my sim buy the game and install it on his computer, oh the hours of fun my sim had playing The Sims. Thank god it wasn't The Sims Online my sim was playing though, I dont know if my poor athlon could simulate that!

    Anyway I was gonna say something cheeky about neo but I'll leave that for the next poster

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