FC2 BitTorrent URL's

[Chris McD]

Scott Burns wrote:

> Paul D. Brown wrote:
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>> Quoting from the bittorrent FAQ at http://btfaq.com/serve/cache/25.html
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>> (no doubt elsewhere as well):
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>> Prior to version 3.2, BitTorrent by default uses ports in the range of
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>> 6881-6889. As of 3.2 and later, the range has been extended to
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>> 6881-6999. (These are all TCP ports, BitTorrent does not use UDP.) The
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>> client starts with the lowest port in the range and sequentially tries
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>> higher ports until it can find one to which it can bind. This means that
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>> the first client you open will bind to 6881, the next to 6882, etc.
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>> Therefore, you only really need to open as many ports as simultaneous
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>> BitTorrent clients you would ever have open. For most people it's
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>> sufficient to open 6881-6889.
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>> Paul
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> Let's see if I understand: I download one file by bt, and other people
> can connect to 6881 on my machine to download from me.  I start a second
> simultaneous bt download of another file.  Others can now connect to me
> on port 6882 to download the second file from me?
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> This strikes me as slightly loopy given http seems to be able to serve
> many files using just one open port...
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This is true with the generic client and some others but azureus in fact 
only uses 1 port for all torrents.