[Gzz-commits] storm README

[Tuukka Hastrup]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/storm
Module name:    storm
Changes by:     Tuukka Hastrup <address@hidden> 03/05/06 15:03:30

Modified files:
        .              : README 

Log message:
        start documenting network connections

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/storm/storm/README.diff?tr1=1.4&tr2=1.5&r1=text&r2=text

Patches:
Index: storm/README
diff -u storm/README:1.4 storm/README:1.5
--- storm/README:1.4    Mon May  5 06:15:41 2003
+++ storm/README        Tue May  6 15:03:30 2003
@@ -66,6 +66,26 @@
 - act as a gateway serving block requests made by http clients
 
 
+Networking
+----------
+
+In Storm P2P network, blocks are located using a distributed hash table (DHT).
+DHT messages come to each peer by UDP protocol at port 57083 (configurable 
+with peer option "-port").
+
+After the block is located, the peer that has published the block serves it
+in response to an HTTP request. The request comes to a port that was the first
+available when the peer started, above or at 37000 (TCP).
+
+A WWW browser can be used to check what certain peer has published. However,
+to retrieve any block through the P2P system, a special gateway HTTP server
+can be started with peer option "-gw 5555", where 5555 is the configurable 
+port number.
+
+
+Usage
+-----
+
 Before compiling Storm, you should have
 
 * CVS module storm-depends checked out as ../storm-depends