Hi All, Bittorrent is a great idea.
There are several different bittorrent command line, and gui clients available in the package from http://www.bittorrent.com. My favorite is btlaunchmanycurses.py. I usually do the following:
- Create a directory to hold torrent files (all downloaded torrents go here)
- Execute btlaunchmanycurses.py on the torrent directory $ btlaunchmanycurses.py --torrent_dir <directory> --max_upload_rate <number in KiBps>Why btlaunchmanycurses.py? You can dynamically add and remove torrents from your torrent directory and they will be added/removed from your download list automatically (plus you won't have command line clients open in different terminals).
If your on a cable/dsl connection you'll want to use the --max_upload_rate option because bittorrent will hog all of your upload bandwidth, which will, in turn, effect your download bandwidth due to queuing of ACK packets. Actually... it's probably a good idea to always pass that flag.
Serving torrents is also very easy. I've attached the readme from the bittorrent docs. I can't summerize the process as well as they can. To read it use the following command:
$ zcat README.txt.gz | less - Sebastian On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, William Roddy wrote:
Sorry. I should have said to type /home/<your home directory name>/<bittorrent seed name>.Old-timers disease. William Roddy _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
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