Quoting Roy Souther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am thinking of setting up a BitTorrent server for serving our favorite > Linux ISO's. I am thinking that if a number of LUG members could keep a > BitTorrent client open that could help with bandwidth. If your not using > your upload bandwidth from your high-speed home connection this would be > a great use for it. > > Any thoughts? Has anyone done this? I have not looked at setting up a > BitTorrent server yet or if there are any tools for creating static > client nodes. Any advice is appreciated. I have plenty of space to host > the original ISO's but I need to make sure that the bandwidth does not > get to high. If anyone knows if there are bandwidth restriction tools > specifically for BitTorrent serving please let me know.
Roy, I think this is a great idea. I have used the Bittorrent client, but not the server. However I have done some reading on it. AFAIK all the downloading is done from the seeders and other clients, not from the tracker itself. The tracker only tells the clients where the other clients are located. So what you have to do is setup the tracker, and then use the bittorrent client to seed the file. The client does give you a fair amount of flexibility. You can use the --max_upload_rate to limit the amount of upstream bandwidth that you will be using. You can also setup a second seeder from another internet connection to share the load. Or once you have enough other seeders you can take down your seeder (but if all the other seeders disconnect then no one will be able to get the whole file until one of them comes back online). The tracker looks like it would be easy enough to setup, but there is also a 3rd party bittorrent java client that has an embeded tracker, if you want to give it a try. Check out these urls for more info: http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/ http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ Jesse _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
