interested/choked - definition please

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jblank
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interested/choked - definition please

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Please help this newbie -- what does it mean that a seeder is "interested" or "choked"? I can't find anything in the documentation explaining this.

Thanks in advance.
lazybones
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Re: interested/choked - definition please

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http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html
"Connections contain two bits of state on either end: choked or not, and interested or not. Choking is a notification that no data will be sent until unchoking happens. The reasoning and common techniques behind choking are explained later in this document."
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