FC2 bittorrent servers: send MD5SUM first

[William Hooper]

John Reiser said:
[snip]
> All of this depends on the bittorrent clients+servers transfering a whole
> directory file-by-file, instead of as random pieces from all the files.
[snip]

But this isn't how Bittorrent works.  It does random pieces so that
everyone won't be after the same piece at the same time, allowing you to
have a better chance of finding a peer that has a piece that you don't
have.

http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/protocol.html

-- 
William Hooper