[Libtorrent-devel] relay mode again

[Josef Drexler]

On Jun 30, 2009, at 12:38 AM, Howard Chu wrote:
> I'm still trying to get my master/slave patches working against .4.  
> I've gotten quite lost in the new choke manager, and have no idea  
> how the objects are connected back to either the choke_manager_node  
> or the peerInfo. Can you give me some tips on how to proceed?
>
> As a refresher: configuring a slave opens a connection to the  
> specified address:port, regardless of any other tracker information.
>
> configuring a master is supposed to give high priority to any  
> connection from that address - no bandwidth limits, and never  
> choked. I have the bandwidth limit removed, but still haven't  
> figured out the new choke manager.
>
> "blessing" a connection was my second attempt at figuring out the  
> choke manager; that attempt has also been rather useless. Any help  
> here would be much appreciated.

All of that is basically implemented by my "friend" patch, if you  
couple it with an IP-based NULL throttle and a schedule to d.add_peer  
the master.

http://ovh.ttdpatch.net/~jdrexler/rt/experimental/friend.diff

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Josef Drexler
josef at ttdpatch.net