The Peer Distributed Transfer Protocol is an

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file transfer File transfer is the transmission of a computer file through a communication channel from one computer system to another. Typically, file transfer is mediated by a communications protocol. In the history of computing, numerous file transfer protocol ...

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for distributing files from a central server across a

peer-to-peer Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the network. They are said to form a peer-to-peer ...

network. It is conceptually similar to BitTorrent but allows for streaming media. The protocol has been assigned port 6086 by the

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. The primary implementation is DistribuStream.

External links

PDTP protocol web site

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