Thank you very much Thomas. Rigoberto
--- Thomas Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is a general overview how Bittorrent works in > SI: > > On your server, there is a Bittorrent Tracker (e.g. > bttrack) running which > is started by the systemimager-server-bittorrent > init script. > > The only function of a Bittorrent tracker is to keep > track of all clients > that are downloading a file (in this case an image) > or have finished a file > that they can serve. This is how your SI clients > know where they can > download their image. > > To bootstrap the system, > systemimager-server-bittorrent also starts a > bittorrent client (seeder) for every image that > needs to be served. This > client reports at startup to the tracker that is has > a complete copy of the > image, so that the tracker can forward this > information to the clients that > need the images. > > The SI clients have a builtin bittorrent client that > is run during startup. > This client asks the tracker for sources that have > the image needed for this > client. For the first client the server will be the > only source. The client > will then start to download the image from the > sources it got via the > bittorrent protocol. During download the client > regularly reports its own > download status to the tracker and requests > information about new sources > that it could download from. The tracker can use the > reported download > status from all clients to answer these queries. > > It is important to note that every bittorrent client > also acts as a server > where others can download files from, this is often > referred to as a > peer-to-peer system. > > The protocol used by bittorrent is based on HTTP, > but still can only be used > with programs that support bittorrent explicitly. > > The specific binaries used are bttrack (tracker) and > btlaunchmany (seeder) > on the server side. On the client side I'm not sure. > > I hope I could help. > > Thomas Krause > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Im Auftrag von > Rigoberto Corujo > Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. Mai 2008 16:01 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: [sisuite-users] Help with BitTorrent and > SystemImager > > Hello everyone, > > I am new to this product and was hoping that someone > may be able to assist me with some questions. My > apologies in advance if this is documented but thus > far I have not been able to find what I'm looking > for. > > I have a Linux OS image that I've captured from > another machine in the form of a gzipped tar file > which I would like to use to image several other > Linux > clients. I would like to use BitTorrent to do this. > > > As I understand it, when the clients PXE boots it > loads a RAMDISK which runs some shell scripts. In > those shell scripts, how does the client tell the > SystemImager server to bring over the gzipped tar > file? In other words, what command does the client > run? > > Also, once the first client starts receiving the > gzipped tar file, how do the other clients manage to > get their image from the first client? Does the > first > client have to have some bittorrent server running > on > it and how do the other clients know to get the > image > from the first client? And, again, what command do > the other clients use to get the image from the > first > client who already has partial image? > > Thank you. > > Rigoberto > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > ________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 > JavaOne(SM) Conference > Don't miss this year's exciting event. 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