How much peer-to-peer?

"rswerdlow" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.bit-torrent.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>

We are using BitTorrent to transport a large data file that is 
created daily and is needed by our client software.  We are running 
our own tracker and each morning we build the new version of this 
datafile and start a complete seed downloader for it.  It all seems 
to be working well.  Hopefully when our client software wich requests 
the file it gets it from peers rather than exclusively from our web 
site.

How can I determine how much traffic is going between the peers?  I 
need to understand just how much of the bandwidth I am off-loading so 
that I know how to predict how our application will scale.  Does the 
tracker "know" which piece is requested from which peer?  Is there a 
way to trap that information by parsing the output from the tracker?  
Is there a tool to do this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 
Bob





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