Free peer to peer networking software for linux

Multi Network Firewall is the up-to-date Mandriva Linux security solution dedicated to the business world. Maximum innovation, performance and scalability is only a click away thanks to an easy-to-use web interface.
Combining firewall, Intrusion Detection System and VPN functionality, MNF 2 is the ultimate full-featured security solution meeting all your demands. Furthermore, to make your network even more secure, benefit from a year of free updates through Mandriva Online Pro!
Main features:
- a firewall, to protect your computer network from unauthorized access (filtering).
- Intrusion Detection System, to alert you to abnormal network activity.
- Virtual Private Network, to enable a secure private tunnel over public networks.
- Proxy server, to intercept all web traffic entering the network.
- DHCP server, to enable the automatic configuration of new machines connected to the LAN.
- Caching DNS, to provide a local DNS service for computers connected to the LAN.
New Featurs:
As well as the existing IPSec, MNF2 provides 2 other types of VPN:
PPTP: a desktop under Windows(R) can be automatically connected without installing any special software
OpenVPN: a lighter open source VPN; Compattible with Linux, Mac OS and Windows
Bonding: Channel combines several network interfaces into a single connection. Effectively, it means that data transfer speeds can be multiplied.
Bridging: this new function enables the administrator to build bridges between network interfaces.
Traffic shaping: You can regulate the flow of traffic on your network just by clicking on a wizard.
Network mapping: Makes it possible to connect networks which use the same private network addresses
Peer-to-Peer Filtering: MNF2 automatically blocks network traffic from "Fast Track" peer-to-peer clients.
Better software support
2.6 Linux Kernel
Better hardware support
Improved support for multiple network cards (up to 10)
Wi-Fi Support
Better ADSL support
Services included in the product
Mandriva Online Pro: benefit from updates for one year through Mandriva Online Pro
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LUA is a small scripting language designed to be embedded inside your application to provide extensibility.
It is also possible to extend the Lua scripting language itself via the use of extensions written in C. This page describes such an extension which provides a small number of basic networking and filesystem primitives.
By installing this extension you will be able to write networking applications in the Lua!
Enhancements:
- Added some filesystem primitives.
- Added API documentation & examples.
- The HTTP server now falls back to a default virtual host if none is specified, or if the attempted one doesnt exist.
- The HTTPD server now supports directory indexing if no index.html file is found in a directory.
- The HTTPD server now writes access.log files to each virtualhost.

PowerFolder project consists of a program to synchronize folders over the internet or on a local net. It uses peer-to-peer technology to exchange the files. This means you do not need a hosting server. Every client holds a local copy of the folder.
It can be used to exchange every type of data for example music, photos, own documents or videos. PowerFolder automatically detects changes and synchronizes (configurable) !
- Documentation
- Screenshots
- Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
- Forum (Support and Community)
- Synchronisation profiles
- Team
- PR-Set (Logos, Banners, etc)
Main features:
- File synchronisation between multiple PCs over internet or lan
- Supports multiple languanges
- Offers Private Networking
- Auto-detects changes
- Runs silently in system tray
- Easy-to-use user interface
- Easy installation and update, windows installer available
- Synchronize profiles control how folders get synchronized
- Pure peer-to-peer network. No server required
- MP3/ID3 tag support
- Out-of-Browser start (Java WebStart)
- Built-in compression of up- and downloads (GZIP)
- Link support for downloads like edonkey links
- Cross platfrom compatibility. PowerFolder is written completely in Java
- Automatically detects nodes on local net like windows network
- Intelligent upload / download strategy. Upload can be limited
- Integrated support for dynamic-dns addresses
- Full icon support for folders on windows systems
- Open-source
The main difference between PowerFolder and other Filesharing programs is, that files get automatically downloaded when someone adds new.
People with same interests group together in folders. If anybody has new stuff, he automatically sends it to all folder members.

Rhizome is a Wiki-like content management and delivery system that exposes the entire site -- content, structure, and metadata as editable RDF. This means that instead of just creating a site with URLs that correspond to a page of HTML, with Rhizome you can create URLs that represent just about anything, such as:
- structural components of content (such as a bullet point or a definition).
- abstract entities that can be presented in different ways depending on the context.
- relationships between entities or content, such as annotations or categories.
Rhizome is designed to enable non-technical users to create these representations in an easy, ad-hoc manner. To this end, it includes a text formatting language which similar to a Wikis but lets you author arbitrary XML content and RDF metadata. And for developers, this allows both content and structure to be easily repurposed and complex web applications rapidly developed.
The long-term vision is that each Rhizome site will intertwine together, forming an emergent fuzzy taxonomy over a peer-to-peer network.
The nearer-term goals of Rhizome are:
- To allow (relatively) non-technical folk to create "Semantic web"-enabled web sites.
- To provide a platform for the rapid-development of web applications
- To provide a test-bed for experimenting with new forms of collaborative knowledge production and communication
- A showcase and test-bed for its underlying technologies: Rx4RDF, ZML, and Raccoon
Main features:
Wiki ease
- All the functionality of a Wiki: public and automatic creation of pages and links using simple text formatting rules
- But the same formatting rules can used to author arbitrary HTML, XML and RDF
- And you can create and edit not just content but also the metadata, site structure and appearance, even application behavior
- Including dynamic pages: supports XSLT, RxSLT, Python, RxUpdate
- Thus enabling dynamic, rule and context based presentation of content
Advanced Content Management functionality
- pages can consist of any content: xml, html, binary, etc.
- content, metadata and site structure is a stored as RDF: enabling it be repurposable, human editable, application agnostic, etc.
- flexible authorization and security model
- staging/release workflow
- native versioning of content and metadata, conflict detection
- supports local file system or browser-based development
- can generate static websites
- import/export of content and metadata
- flexible backend: supports multiple RDF engines (Redland, 4Suite, RDFLib) with multiple datastores: file based, SQL databases, embeddable databases (Sleepycat, Metakit)
XHTML or arbitrary XML can be authored in ZML in a manner very similar to Wiki text formatting rules. Rhizome comes with built-in support for Apache Forrest document types and has preliminary support for DocBook. You can also easily view and edit RDF metadata for the site using RxML.
Almost all of Rhizomes functionality can be found its dynamic pages, which are written in RxSLT, XSLT, and RxUpdate. These can be edited like any other page, making it easy to add and change functionality without restarting the server. You can use RxUpdate to migrate the underlying schema at run-time. Rhizome supports fine-grained authorization and versioning of both metadata and content, so you have some guard rails too.
Enhancements:
- This release adds "shredding": a framework (including GRDDL support) for extracting RDF from content and maintaining the relationship between them over time.
- It also includes better support for viewing and editing RDF directly with most RDF formats.
- There are also several UI enhancements, including a new UI for managing users and roles, more Wiki features, and page and comment spam detection via the Akismet service.
- Last but not least, it is several times faster than previous releases.

POE (Perl Object Environment) parcels out execution time among one or more tasks, called sessions. Sessions multitask through cooperation (at least until Perls threads become mainstream). That is, each session returns execution to POE as quickly as possible so it can parcel out time to the next.
POE includes a high-level component architecture. Components are modular, reusable pieces of programs. They perform common, often tedious tasks so programmers can work on more interesting things.
Several POE components have been written to handle client, server, and peer networking tasks. Because of them, POE has become a convenient and quick way to write multitasking network applications.
Anyone can write and publish POE components. The CPAN contains a [steadily growing list] of them. The POE Components List includes ones that havent been uploaded to the CPAN yet.
POE provides medium- and low-level concurrency functions. Components use them to perform their tasks. The functions are also available to programmers who prefer to avoid the overhead of components at the expense of writing more code. Components and custom sessions coexist because they all use the same basic functions.
POE supports graphical toolkits such as Tk and Gtk. It is the only Perl programming framework that does this. It also supports Curses, HTTP, and other user interfaces. POE programs can present multiple user interfaces at once.
Enhancements:
- A number of stability and performance fixes were done, including making the tests less prone to race conditions, improving the installation process, eliminating known resource leaks, and reducing CPU use when combined with Tk.

OggCarton is a free, open source, home jukebox system that rips, indexes, and manages playlists for Ogg Vorbis music files. OggCarton a web server for playing files on your home network. Compatible with existing MP3 files.
Beta source code and binary installers are available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Please be sure to report any bugs you may encounter. Though the web server includes access control, you may want to run the web server behind a firewall for an additional layer of security against unauthorized users accessing your music files.
Main features:
- Runs on Windows 2000/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
- Compatible with any MP3 or Ogg Vorbis files you may already have.
- Ripping to Ogg Vorbis format -- built-in ripper for Mac OS X and Windows, uses the cdparanoia ripper under Linux.
- Indexing --
- Automatically creates a keyword-searchable database of your Ogg Vorbis files.
- Built-in ID tagging through freedb.org.
- Database can import your existing Ogg Vorbis and MP3 files.
- Playing -- Uses a standard media player (such as WinAmp, iTunes, or XMMS) to play your Ogg Vorbis and MP3 files.
- Home networking -- has an integrated web server so you can play your files from another machine on your home network.
- Requires NO external database software.
- Requires NO external web server
OggCarton is not designed for illegal distribution of music, nor is it particularly suited for doing so (it is not a "file-sharing" or peer-to-peer program and there is no net-wide file search capability). Ripping your own CDs for your own personal use is legal in the United States (and most other countries). Distributing the files to other people is not. As the good folks at Apple say, "Dont steal music." You dont want the karma, and you especially dont want the RIAAs lawyers knocking at your door.

BioCluster is a peer-to-peer clustering platform for Asterisk, the open source PBX, which allows Asterisk to be used as a full carrier-grade telephony solution. This project is meant to be installed on several machines together with Asterisk, turning them into a VoIP cluster.

While the BioCluster peer-to-peer protocol was initially designed to cater to Asterisk-based clustering solutions, the BioCluster framework is capable of being extended to support various forms of normally unclustered devices or software packages.