From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 5 15:08:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C70016A4CE for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 15:08:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kane.otenet.gr (kane.otenet.gr [195.170.0.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E511543D3F for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 15:08:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (host5.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.229])i95F8ZFq027818; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 18:08:36 +0300 Received: from orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (orion [127.0.0.1]) i95F8Zit095902; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 18:08:35 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost)i95F8YTx095901; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 18:08:34 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 18:08:34 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Troy Mills Message-ID: <20041005150834.GB5326@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> References: <956dc51a0410050606ac45514@mail.gmail.com> <20041005135206.GA2914@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Downloading FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 15:08:39 -0000 On 2004-10-05 10:04, Troy Mills wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:52:06 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas > wrote: > > On 2004-10-05 21:06, Marcus Meng wrote: > > > Has anyone ever considered setting up a bittorrent tracker for FreeBSD > > > distributions? > > > > The usual methods (FTP, CVS, CVSup) work fine so far. What would that > > gain for the end-user who's sitting on a slow dialup link somewhere? > The "gain" for dialup users would be indirect but ultimately everyone > would benefit. Those who chose to do CVSup and download ISOs from the > FTP server may see an indirect gain in speed as the bandwidth load > (from those downloading ISO's) would distributed to the people who > wish to help seed the torrent. It would obviously be a bigger help > around the time when new versions come out and the servers are being > hammered. Please don't use top-posting :-/ Especially when part of the thread is already using bottom-posting. I'm asking because I don't know: a) What a bittorrent tracker is. b) What it takes to install and set up one. c) Why would I prefer it over FTP/CVSup? Your reply to c) seems to be "to save bandwidth". The next logical question is "how is bandwidth saved and who is it saved from"? > I'm not sure if that explanation was clear or not but it seems obvious > to me what the bonuses would be. Not very, but I've seen BitTorrent being mentioned quite a few times in the past. I'm asking what it is, why one would use it, how it would be set up in order to learn more about BitTorrent.