Local peers on multi-subnet LAN are not detected as local

[tchough]

Hello!

I'm have a unique network setup. There are two subnets, 10.0.0.* and 10.0.5.*, both with their own independent internet connection. I would like to run uTorrent on a machine from each subnet, effectively doubling the download rate.

I'm having several problems, though. uTorrent is not automatically detecting the peers as local. I attribute this to both machines being on different subnets. To work around this, I am manually adding the machines as peers. After several tries, they eventually show up each others' peer lists.

Unfortunately, while the machines will show up for a little bit, they do not transfer much data. Maybe a chunk or two, and then they are each dropped from each others' peer list until manually readded. The downloads never quite sync up, as a result. Neither machine is given the L in the flags list. Instead it's just "ud E".

So, what am I doing wrong? Is there any way to let uTorrent know that a peer is local, even if he's on a different subnet? Why do my machines hate each other?

Thanks in advance,

TC

BTW, I am running version 1.7.5 on both machines.

[Firon]

It should still treat it as a local peer simply because of the IP. You do have limit local peers off, right?

[Ultima]

L means they were specifically detected by Local Peer Discovery -- nothing more. As long as it detects that a peer is on the same subnet, it should (as Firon said) treat the peer as local anyway.

[Switeck]

For µTorrent's designers:

Why are local seeds/peers each dropped from each others' peer list until manually readded?

And why is the connection between them automatically dropped?

[Ultima]

Ehm... it's not like it's by design that µTorrent drops connections (if it even is µTorrent doing the dropping in the first place)...