aMule is a

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that works with the eDonkey network and the

Kad network The Kad network is a peer-to-peer (P2P) network which implements the Kademlia P2P overlay protocol. The majority of users on the Kad Network are also connected to servers on the eDonkey network, and Kad Network clients typically query known nodes ...

, offering similar features to

eMule eMule is a free peer-to-peer file sharing application for Microsoft Windows. Started in May 2002 as an alternative to eDonkey2000, eMule now connects to both the eDonkey network and the Kad network. The distinguishing features of eMule are ...

and adding others such as

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(country flags). On August 18, 2003 it was forked from the

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, which itself is a fork of the

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project, which was the first attempt to bring the eMule client to

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. These projects were discontinued and aMule is the resulting project, though aMule has less and less resemblance to the client that sired it. aMule shares code with the

project. The credit and partials downloads of eMule can be used by aMule and vice versa, making program substitution simple. aMule aims to be portable over multiple platforms and is doing this with the help of the

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library. Currently supported systems include

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, various BSD-derived systems,

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and

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. Beside the stable releases the project also offers SVN versions as an unstable release.

TCP and UDP ports

According to the aMule official FAQ, these are the default

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. Server ports 4661 TCP and 4665 UDP are only used by the EDonkey network. Therefore, the

Kad Network The Kad network is a peer-to-peer (P2P) network which implements the Kademlia P2P overlay protocol. The majority of users on the Kad Network are also connected to servers on the eDonkey network, and Kad Network clients typically query known nodes ...

will only use 4662 TCP and 4672 UDP. The traffic direction is from client perspective: * 4661 TCP (outgoing):

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on which an eDonkey server listens for connection (port number may vary depending on eDonkey server used). * 4662 TCP (outgoing and incoming): Client to client transfers. * 4665 UDP (outgoing and incoming): Used for global eDonkey server searches and global source queries. This is always Client TCP port + 3. * 4672 UDP (outgoing and incoming): Extended aMule protocol, Queue Rating, File Reask Ping * 4711 TCP: WebServer listening port. Used if aMule is accessed through the web. * 4712 TCP: internal Connection port. Used to communicate aMule with other applications such as aMule WebServer or aMuleCMD. Most of these

are customizable.

Monolithic and modular build

aMule can be compiled using ''-disable-monolithic'' parameter: this allows aMule to be run in a modular way. This means that the core functionalities of the program can be started using amuled, the aMule

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while the software behavior can be controlled through three different interfaces: ;aMuleCMD: The command-line aMule client. ;aMuleGUI: The ''regular'' GUI of the software. Experimental, a lot of features missing in comparison with the monolithic version and is unstable. There are Linux and Windows version for this tool: users can connect an aMule instance running on Linux from a workstation running Windows and the Win32 version of aMuleGUI. ;aMuleWEB: The web interface provided by the aMule core built-in

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. It can be retrieved via the LAN or from the Internet, provided any Internet router is properly configured using

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References

External links

aMule home page

mobileMule
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TCP and UDP ports

Monolithic and modular build

See also

References

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