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Options for connecting BitTorrent peers using uTP
The introduction to uTP can be found in following links: BEP 29 libtorrent document
The introduction to UDP hole-punch can be found in following links: BEP 55
Globally uTP Options
Tools menu → Options →BitTorrent → Enable uTP for peer connection
- Disable: connecting peers using TCP only; accept TCP incoming connections only.
- Auto Detect: connecting peers using uTP after TCP failures; accept uTP & TCP incoming connections.
- Always: connecting peers using uTP only; accept uTP & TCP incoming connections.
- Forcibly: connecting peers using uTP only; accept uTP incoming connections only.
Tools menu → Options →Advanced → bittorrent.utp_after_holepunch
- Disable: skip hole-punch before creating uTP connections.
- Auto: performs hole-punch before creating uTP connections only for peers retrieved from PEX supporting BEP 55.
- Forcibly: always performs hole-punch before creating uTP connections to any peer.
Tools menu → Options →Advanced → bittorrent.peer_hole_punch
- true: enable BEP 55 hole punch extension in BitComet as an initiator, responder, or introducer.
- false: disable BEP 55 hole punch extension in BitComet.
uTP Option for a specified peer
Peers list of BitTorrent task → context menu → uTP initiation
- Default: following the globally option, connect to this peer using TCP and/or uTP.
- Disable: override globally options, do not connect to this peer using uTP.
- Hole Punch: override globally options, always performs hole-punch before creating uTP connection to this peer.
- Direct: override globally options, always skip hole-punch before creating uTP connection to this peer.
