From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 9 08:29:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAE5716A41F for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 08:29:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from randy@psg.com) Received: from rip.psg.com (rip.psg.com [147.28.0.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98B7143D48 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 08:29:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from randy@psg.com) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=roam.psg.com) by rip.psg.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1EZlKT-000KSS-0D; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 08:29:13 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=roam.psg.com) by roam.psg.com with esmtp (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1EZlKR-000KRy-6Z; Tue, 08 Nov 2005 22:29:11 -1000 From: Randy Bush MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17265.45910.586450.774376@roam.psg.com> Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 22:29:10 -1000 To: Kris Kennaway References: <17265.5879.629471.751326@roam.psg.com> <20051108213051.GC31355@puck.firepipe.net> <17265.7248.597551.784115@roam.psg.com> <20051109080513.GB40612@xor.obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd ports Subject: Re: gui-free torrent X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 08:29:14 -0000 >> but putting just a client on a headless at the westin makes >> no sense, as i'll still have to slurp the data over the dsl >> to get it on the laptoy. >> >> it's the server that will be a win over in the land of >> bandwidth. > > OK, what are you actually asking for..the above didn't make > any sense to me :-) my office is my laptop. everything is on it, compilers and tools, research data and code, mail back to the late '70s, ... hard disk is cheap. i wander around with my laptop, but it is usually in low-bandwidth environments, e.g. my home dsl, a meeting wifi, t-mo at a fourbucks or untied red rug, ... i want to fetch data to it that is available as a torrent. i feel obliged to also serve what i eat (the opposite of eating our own dog food?:-). i.e. i feel socially responsible to let the stuff i download be uploaded as well. to do this today, i run azureus on my laptop. this is not a polite thing to do on a home dsl line, a wifi meeting, ... where bandwidth is shared and not plentiful. i also have a bunch of servers in a rack in seattle's carrier hotel (the westin building (not westin hotel), 33 floors of racks and screaming fans), and about 450mb of bandwidth to that rack (yes, half a gig). it seems to me that the best operating mode would be to have a torrent client/server in the rack. then, when i want some new file, i can ask the torrent client in the rack to fetch (and subsequently serve) it. when it has been fetched, i can rsync it to my laptop, burning the scarce bandwidth only once. for that, a pretty simple gui-free client/server would seem appropriate. rtorrent looks a fit, but i am having my usual 'the moon is in klutz' problems. make sense yet? you asked. bet you'll never do that again. :-) randy