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What is RooiHub?

• RooiHub is peer-to-peer DC++ hub software
  • …that talks to other virtual hubs on the local network (LAN) to form a decentralised network
  • …which has no common point-of-failure. Like the Internet.
• It is developed in C++ and runs transparently alongside other popular DC++ clients, like ApexDC++.
  • Dis befok.

Why is it befok?

Advantages over traditional hub software

• No central hub software that can fail.
• Simple to set up and run.
• If any number of nodes (users) fail, then it does not affect other nodes.
• Impossible to moderate. Big up for free speech.

Disadvantages

• Impossible to moderate.
• It can take a while to find everyone on the network.

How does it work?

RooiHub sends and receives semi-reliable UDP data on port 7700 and tries to find other computers running RooiHub.

RooiHub then acts as a “virtual transparent proxy” for your DC++ client and lists these computers as users in your DC++ client .

Who made it?

• Rooibos made it.
• Pate fixes bugs and sponsors hosting.

Why the name “RooiHub”?

• rooi is the Afrikaans word for red. Rooibos is the developer. Math time.