PreferencesKad.dat file
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Contents
File
Name: preferencesKad.dat
Location: ~/.aMule/
Description
This file stores the IP and Kademlia ClientID.
Format
The file format is as follows:
- IP: Stores the [client]]'s IP (4 bytes)
- Deprecated field: This field is no more used, so it's filled with 0s (2 bytes)
- ClientID: The client's ClientID (16 bytes)
- End of tags signal: Old eMule clients expected more info to be read on this file. To remain compatible with those clients, this field is set to 0 (1 byte)
Once this data is put together, it is stored in little-endian.
Example
The following is a hex dump of an hypothetic preferencesKad.dat file:
000000000000C1A3CBE82BBD354A398A7B623E100EBF00
In the above example, the following data can be seen:
- IP: 0.0.0.0, which means it's not yet set (In hex: 0x00000000)
- Deprecated field: 0 (In hex: 0x0000)
- ClientID: C1A3CBE82BBD354A398A7B623E100EBF
- End of tags signal: 0 (In hex: 0x00)
Extra
aMule ignores the End of tags signal when reading this file, so it is optional to use it. Anyway, aMule does write it to keep compatibility with old eMule clients.
