RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY
| reply to ISurfTooMuch
Re: Let them try
said by ISurfTooMuch  :First of all, I applaud any effort to reduce bandwidth. Frankly, I can't understand why current or even past P2P clients didn't implement something like this, since it benefits the end user. Most of the support for doing a P4P-like system already exists in the current BT code. All that is needed is to add code to flag each peer as Type1 (same netblock as you), Type2 (same Network), or Type3 (not on my ISP's Network). This information can be located via a WHOIS to whois.arin.net. You query it for your IPN and this will tell you your Netblock (Netblock Name and IPN Range). The Type2s are located by editing the Netblock name. Any peer whose IPN is not in the Type1 or Type2 range is automatically Type3. Now you parse the list of peers to get Type1s. If this does not yield the number of maximum sessions that the user has defined, start adding Type2s. If you still have open slots, go for Type3s. In each case, you select from the current pool using the same methods that are currently used.
This causes you to first talk to near peers, then others on your ISP's network before going out of your ISP's network. No need for P4P mucking with (or monitoring/approving/censoring) your connections since your client does all the selection as it does right now (just more efficiently). |
