TL;DR: I still believe my idea might work. But safe implementation might take more work than I expected. My idea from my last two posts amounts to applying settings dynamically while libtorrent session is running. This process seems error prone, especially if/when order matters. e.g. Deluge needs to...

You could open a ticket and submit a PR on the github with this, it seems like a very minor change that could solve this problem (assuming it was an oversight) - worst case, we will find out if there's a reason and perhaps another solution will be proposed or something. Thank you for your encourage...

I apologize for necroing this old thread. Here is an *untested* idea: On construction, a session object is configured by a session_params object. The session_params object notably contain session_settings, the state of the DHT node (e.g. routing table), the session's IP filter as well as the disk I/...