Chapter 11. GnutellaNet Statistics

The GnutellaNet statistics require an indepth understanding of the gnutella protocol. You may be asked to visit these screens to diagnose problems.

The horizon tab gives an estimate of the number of files and total amount of data available on the GnutellaNet. Currently all information must be less than five hops away. So the four hops data is what is displayed in the status line. This data is derived from the HSEP (horizon size estimate protocol). Unfortunately only gtk-gnutella supports this, so there are not very many nodes participating. This makes the estimates unreliable.