rolling your own client distro?
 

I'm trying to start a private gnutella network at my company, and i'm wondering what the is the easist software to roll out to the users?

All of the clients I've downloaded are pre-configured to connect to the larger gnutellanet, and are optimised for modem users.

I want to be able to easily roll out an "in-house" distro of gnutella, optimised and pre-configured for our network. Which client version would be easiest to customize in this manner? How would I go about doing it? (All these slick installers these days... can't they just pack stuff into a zipfile like they used to?)

The only one I can think of so far would be to find an original nullsoft gnutella client-- the one with the standalone exe and no hardcoded values. I could easily roll that out in a customized form with a regfile to configure it for our network.

The other issue is that of the super-peer. I've been testing the clip2 reflector, but it seems awfully slow and doesn't seem to deal well with large numbers of files. Does anyone know of a better index server?

Your help is much appreciated!
Thanks,
--Josh

check out Limewire. Under their Tools/Options/Advanced is something about a private network.
hope that helps
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