On 3/3/10 5:16 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: > Proftpd has the ability to limit the number of connections from any single > host. Otherwise one person often ends up grabbing all the available > download slots. Anyone want to look into a torrent? Is there an easy > recipe for setting one up? What's the bandwidth required to seed it?
I am no expert on this at all, I haven't even created a seed yet. I suppose I am a leech but I browsed the web for a short while and came up with these suggestions: 1) Urgently, someone who has a decent upload speed and has his computer on-line 24/7 could seed the packages and publish them on fg web site and torrent tracker sites ... after reasonable time there would be enough copies available. Assuming that there are not too many leeches I don't think bandwidth is an issue. 2) Maybe web seeding could solve the problem? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_%28protocol%29#Web_seeding 3) Or maybe one of the current ftp site maintainers could utilize http://www.torrentflux.com/ which may help? 4) There are seed boxes that can be used for a cost, http://filesharefreak.com/2009/01/15/10-really-cheap-seedboxes-that-anyone-can-afford/ As I understand the problem for fg is that we cannot rely on someone seeding just to be nice, it must be a more central source. Naively I think this is accomplished by setting up a tracker for the fg torrents only (or use a public tracker) and providing a seed that is always online. This would guarantee the availability (avoid the swarm to die http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_%28protocol%29#The_leech_problem) of the packages but benefit from other peers during peak traffic. I think this is something that should be set up by the current bandwidth providers. They would benefit from the set up also. Surely, there must be someone among the list readers who knows more about these things? Jari ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
