Documentation

Below is a list of links to SPP related documentation.

Manual pages

p2pd(8). The p2pd manual page.
p2pd-mdgen(1). The p2pd-mdgen manual page.

Usage scenarios

These documents describe how to configure p2pd for different usage scenarios. There are basically two different classes of configurations: those using HTTP and those using SPP. The documents describe limitations/benefits of each, with the same CDN configurations used in both documents.

HTTP based CDN usage scenarios.
These configurations do not require any special software to be installed on client machines.
SPP based CDN usage scenarios.
These configurations assume that clients have p2pd installed.

Practical deployment issues

As a comparison of the two documents above will show, a larger number of usage scenarios are possible when SPP rather than HTTP is used. A problem with using SPP is however lack of support in clients.

HTTP/SPP compatibility in p2pd.
This document describes features in p2pd that attempt to alleviate these problems.