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PEER TO PEER VS CLIENT SERVER



Client Server
Peer to Peer
Computers / nodes request services from the server
Each individual computers acts as both the servives
provider and the service consumer
Software installation in the server only
Software installation for all computer
Easy to manage the resources in the network (server
existance facilitate the distrubution of the resources)
Difficult to manage the resources in the network
Higher cabling cost
Less cabling cost
Security control by server (centralized)
Security conyrol by their own