Re: [libtorrent] How to tell which peer sent the piece?

[Steve W <s.w...@gm...>]

 
> On 2015-01-24 03:35, Steve W wrote:  
> >  
> > Hi  
> >  
> > I see that the ‘piece_finished_alert’ is posted each time a piece is  
> > completed. Is there a way to find out which peer was the sender of a  
> > piece? The alert seems to provide the piece index and the torrent  
> > handle, but is there a way to trace back to who the peer is?  
>  
> A piece is often downloaded from multiple peers. You'd have to  
> listen for block_finished_alert, which derives from peer_alert  
> which includes the IP,port and the peer-id of the peer.  
>  
> Note that if a piece hash fails, you will receive multiple  
> block_finished_alert for the same block.  

Thank you, Arvid.


Steve

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