MANOLITO

MANOLITO or MP2P is the internal protocol name for the proprietary peer-to-peer file sharing network developed by Pablo Soto, first used by Blubster, and later Piolet. MANOLITO uses UDP on port 41170 for search routing and is based on Gnutella. In addition file transfers use a proprietary protocol based on TCP.

MANOLITO hosts obtain an entry into the network by contacting an HTTP network gateway, which returns a list of approximately one-hundred MANOLITO hosts. Hosts can also be manually connected to. Servents maintain contact with a fixed number of peers (depending on the Internet connection) that are sent search queries and results.

Reverse Engineering Efforts

Wireshark/Ethereal can dissect the MANOLITO protocol, as of the 0.10.6 release, thanks to the efforts of the OpenLITO project.

No open source clients are yet available, since the 16-bit checksum has not been reverse-engineered. This is an open problem for the OpenLITO project.

External links

* [http://www.manolito.com Manolito web site]
* [http://openlito.sourceforge.net/ OpenLITO] — attempt at reverse-engineering the MANOLITO protocol and creating an open source client
* [http://65.208.228.223/lists/ethereal-dev/200408/msg00064.html New dissector: MANOLITO/MP2P for Blubster/RockItNet/Piolet] — post on the Ethereal-dev mailing list
* [http://www.mp2p.net MP2P Technologies]
* [http://www.blubster.com Blubster]
* [http://www.piolet.com/protocol.html Piolet Protocol]