ACIS P2P Library and Applications

Overview
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This library provides a basic P2P framework with the following key features:
- Transports layer (UDP, TCP, relay, XMPP, etc)
- Structured overlay layer (Symphony)
- Distributed Hash Table
- VPN (IPOP / SocialVPN / GroupVPN)
- XMLRPC Bridge
- NAT Traversal using UDP hole punching and relaying

The library has been built around mono and can be run on .NET, though special
care must be taken to actually compile the soruce in .NET.

Tests
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This suite contains many tests, both unit and integration tests implemented
using nunit.  An automated nunit test can be executed by using "nant test" in
the root directory.

Examples
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For simple examples of writing applications, navigate to the directory
src/Brunet/Applications/Examples.

Links
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Brunet -- The P2P library / IPOP -- Internet Protocol over Peer-to-Peer
- http://www.ipop-project.org
GroupVPN -- Using groups as a medium to connect IPOP
- http://www.grid-appliance.org/wiki/index.php/GroupVPN
SocialVPN -- using social links (like IM) as a medium to connect IPOP 
- http://www.socialvpn.org
Overlay Readme -- Creating your own bootstrap overlay and other overlay basics
- http://www.grid-appliance.org/wiki/index.php/BasicNodeReadme
IpopNode Readme -- Using IPOP without GroupVPN or SocialVPN
- http://www.grid-appliance.org/wiki/index.php/IpopNodeReadme


Contact
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Join the P2P Mailing list at Google Groups:
Development issues: http://groups.google.com/group/acisp2p
User issues: http://groups.google.com/group/acisp2pusers

License
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