The DHT extension (peer2peer tracker) uses various UDP ports negotiated by the peers.

The well known TCP port for BitTorrent traffic is 6881-6889 (and 6969 for the tracker port). TCP: Typically, BitTorrent uses TCP as its transport protocol. Today many applications are availiable, and the protocol is widely used. The first program to use the protocol was the original BitTorrent client. In April 2001 Bram Cohen designed the BitTorrent protocol, which he implemented summer 2002. And the uTorrent imports another UDP based Micro Transport Protocol, called uTP. A UDP based peer to peer tracker protocol. The tracker only manages connections, it does not have any knowledge of the contents of the files being distributed, and therefore a large number of users can be supported with relatively limited tracker bandwidth.Ī recent extension to BitTorrent is the DHT ('distributed sloppy hash table' or simply called UDP tracker) protocol. However, there is a central server (called a tracker) which coordinates the action of all such peers.

It is peer-to-peer in nature, as users connect to each other directly to send and receive portions of the file. BitTorrent is a protocol designed for transferring files.