UDTGATE - USER DATA TRANSPORT GATEWAY SYSTEM
                             Ver 1.5-fix6 (2010-05-18)

DISCLAIMER

  The Authors assume no responsibility for damage or loss of system
  performance as a direct or indirect result of the use of this
  software. This software is provided "as is" without express or
  implied warranty.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

  Disclaimer
  Table Of Contents
  Introduction
  Supported Architectures
  Prerequestives
  Availability
  Installation
  Copying And Copyrights
  Frequently Asked Questions
  Code Update Announcements
  Mailing Lists
  Configuration and setup
  Submitting Bug Reports
  Thanks


INTRODUCTION

  UDTGATE is a set of application for high-performance transport
  tunnels to efficiently manage intensive data streams between
  interacting sites.

  UDTGATE is primarily uses UDT package: a powerful highly
  configurable udt-based user-level network transport suite which can
  efficiently manage network links with high bandwidth*delay factors
  and other "anomales" where basic TCP looses.

  Currently UDTGATE package includes two applications:

    * udtgate (planing for 2.x release) - solution to establish OSI L4 overlay
    networks with possibility to transparently route clients's network
    connection through several intermediate L4 gateways interacting
    with each other with UDT protocol.

    and

    * udtrelay - lightweight proxy allowing to pass TCP connections
    between two sites over UDT tunnel. 
      See README.udtrelay for details.


SUPPORTED ARCHITECTURES

  This package aimed to be running on POSIX systems and possibly Win32
  in the future.
  
  By now, it was successfully compiled and ran on the following
  platforms:
	  
    Lunix:
	i686-pc-linux-gnu   (EL3, gcc 3.2.3)	
	x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (EL4, gcc 3.4.6)
	
    FreeBSD:
	i386-pc-freebsd5.2.1
        i386-pc-freebsd6.2
        i386-pc-freebsd6.1

  Please let us know if you compile it on other OS versions and it
  works for you so we can add them to the above list.

  Porting:  Please! read the PORTING file.

  Also note that some architectures may have architecture specific
  README files, so you should check to see if there is one appropriate
  to your platform.

AVAILABILITY

  This project is hosted on SourceForge
  
  Sourceforge Project page:
    - http://sourceforge.net/projects/udtgate
  CVS access:
    - visit CVS section on
      http://sourceforge.net/projects/udtgate/
  Source Download:
    - visit the <Download>  section on
      http://sourceforge.net/projects/udtgate/
  Web page:
    - http://udtgate.sourceforge.net
  Project Wiki:
    - http://udtgate.wiki.sourceforge.net
  Mirrors:
    - none yet

PREREQUESTIVES

   * UDT package ver 4.X (mandatory)
     
     http://udt.sourceforge.net

     (! Important !) You should use *gnu_conf* branch in order avoid 
     compilation problems. 
     Latest tested distribution is udt.sdk.4.0.beta2.gnu_conf.tar.gz.
   
   * Install package to "socksify" applications (optional).

     - For Unix    - runsocks
       see ports or download:
       http://freeware.sgi.com/source/socks5/
       
     - For Windows - SocksCap
       http://www.socks.permeo.com/
      
       NOTE: minisocks.so library from this distribution
             can be used to "socksify" applications. 

INSTALLATION

  See the INSTALL file distributed with this package.

COPYING AND COPYRIGHTS

  See the COPYING and LICENSE.* files distributed with this package.


FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

  None yet


CODE UPDATE ANNOUNCEMENTS

  See the NEWS file and the ChangeLog file for details on what has
  changed between releases.

  If You want to track new releases, please use Source Forge's package 
  monitoring facility:
   1. Register as Source Forge user and login.
   2. Go to <Download> section on http://sourceforge.net/projects/udtgate/
   3. Click the [Monitor] icon nearby package entry. 
  
  You can also subscribe to  
  
  announcements. Any time we post new release package to SourceForge,
  we'll mail this fact to udtgate-announce@lists.sourceforge.net. See
  the MAILING LISTS section described below to sign up for these
  announcements.

MAILING LISTS

  The lists:

    Only announce  mailing list is supported:
        udtgate-announce@lists.sourceforge.net

    For other sections please use discussion forums in <Forums>
    section on http://sourceforge.net/projects/udtgate/ and "forum
    monitoring" facility for hot tracking.
    

CONFIGURATION AND SETUP

  udtrelay - see README.udtrelay file for details



SUBMITTING BUG REPORTS AND FEATURE REQUESTS

  Important: *Please* include what version of the udtgate package you
  are using and what architecture(s) you're using, as well as detailed
  information about exactly what is wrong.

  To submit a bug report or feature requests, please use the web
  interface in the <Tracker> section on: 
  
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/udtgate/
  

THANKS

  Developers are greatful to Source Forge team for an excelent project
  maintenance platform. 
  
  Special thanks to UDT developers (http://udt.sourceforge.net/) from
  National Center of Data Mining (USA, Illinois) whose product
  encouraged us to start this project.
  
  The following people have contributed various patches and
  improvements.  To them we owe our deepest thanks (and you do too!):

    No yet :). Welcome!
  
  We've probably forgotten people on this list.  Let us know if you've
  contributed code and we've left you out.