Enable DHT¶

 1 
 2         public void StartDht (ClientEngine engine, int port)
 3         {
 4             // Send/receive DHT messages on the specified port
 5             IPEndPoint listenAddress = new IPEndPoint (IPAddress.Any, port);
 6 
 7             // Create a listener which will process incoming/outgoing dht messages
 8             DhtListener listener = new UdpListener (listenAddress);
 9 
10             // Create the dht engine
11             DhtEngine dht = new DhtEngine (listener);
12 
13             // Connect the Dht engine to the MonoTorrent engine
14             engine.RegisterDht (dht);
15 
16             // Start listening for dht messages and activate the DHT engine
17             listener.Start ();
18 
19             // If there are existing DHT nodes stored on disk, load them
20             // into the DHT engine so we can try and avoid a (very slow)
21             // full bootstrap
22             byte[] nodes = null;
23             if (File.Exists (path))
24                 nodes = File.ReadAllBytes (nodes);
25             dht.Start (nodes);
26         }
27 
28         public void StopDht (DhtEngine dht, DhtListener listener)
29         {
30             // Stop the listener and dht engine. This does not
31             // clear internal data so the DHT can be started again
32             // later without needing a full bootstrap.
33             listener.Stop ();
34             dht.Stop ();
35 
36             // Save all known dht nodes to disk so they can be restored
37             // later. This is *highly* recommended as it makes startup
38             // much much faster.
39             File.WriteAllBytes (path, dht.SaveNodes ());
40         }