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FastTrack
Last modified: Tuesday, October 13, 2009
A peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing
protocol that has been used by a number of P2P
programs and applications, including Kazaa, for the exchange of
MP3 files. When
connected to the application, users do not communicate with each other. Instead, FastTrack user nodes connect to "supernodes" that index the files users have
available for sharing and forward the traffic for downloading.
giFT-FastTrack Protocol This document attempts to describe what's currently known of the FastTrack protocol.
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