thegsusfreek Posted October 23, 2009 Report Posted October 23, 2009 Quick question: From the little I've been able to find on the topic, it seems that Local Peer Discovery is supposed to search for peers on your local network (that is, behind your router). I have four computers behind my router, yet I'm downloading a torrent that claims LPD has found 2 seeds and 43 peers. How is this possible? Is this a bug, or am I just missing something?Thanks in advance for the help!
Lord Alderaan Posted October 23, 2009 Report Posted October 23, 2009 You mean all those peers have the L flag set in the Flags column of the peers tab of the torrent in question? If so, then your multicast packets are going beyond your router. Normally a router wouldn't forward these to its WAN port.Or do you mean something different?
thegsusfreek Posted October 23, 2009 Author Report Posted October 23, 2009 Sorry I wasn't more specific. I'm talking about the "Local Peer Discovery" entry in the trackers tab:There are only 10 local peers in that pic, but last night I was seeing quite a few more peers and a couple of seeds too. None of the peers I was connected to had the L flag set. At first, I thought it was because there were a lot of peers on that torrent and I just happened to not be connected to any that were local. But after some searching, I got the impression that "local peers" are supposed to be behind my router and I started thinking the "Local Peer Discovery" entry in the tracker section was/is just plain wrong.Any ideas?
moogly Posted October 23, 2009 Report Posted October 23, 2009 Read this topic: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=48543uT has likely discovered you (and your other computers) many times.You can observe the same behavior if your are alone in your LAN with public torrents.
thegsusfreek Posted October 24, 2009 Author Report Posted October 24, 2009 Aha! That explains it. Thanks for the link; search-fail on my part. :/
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