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Peer ↔ Bittorrent Client instance connect to Swarm || user to connect to P2P

aka Peers

References​

  1. Choked ↔ when Peer refuse to send Piece || on blacklist || maxed out upload

  2. Tracker ↔ central Server to track/Announce Seed/Peer list

  3. Swarm ↔ group of Peers

  4. DHT ↔ P2P distributed Hash Table for decentralized trackerless discovery with torrent hash & Peer-list

  5. Seed ↔ Peer with complete Torrent & upload Pieces to Swarm

  6. Flag ↔ indicator in torrent client to describe status of Peer intent/discovery/connection

  7. d ↔ (Flag) YOU Interested to download & Peer Choked

  8. D ↔ (Flag) YOU Interested to download & Peer Unchoked

  9. S ↔ (Flag) Peer Snubbed

  10. u ↔ (Flag) Peer Interested to DL from YOU BUT YOU Choked

  11. I2P ↔ (experimental) Invisible Internet Project system to Encrypt comms & relay several Peer nodes to destination - bandwidth scales multiples of Relays !

  12. Bootstrapping ↔ (process) to first discover Peers via DHT

  13. DHT Node Closeness ↔ Hop distance to DHT Peer Node

  14. DHT NodeID ↔ UID for Peer in DHT Network

  15. PP2P ↔ Private P2P Protocol to restrict access to only mutually trusted Peers

  16. LSD ↔ (mechanism) to discover Peers Announce to Swarm via HTTP over UDP-multicast