Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 22:29:10 -1000 From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gui-free torrent Message-ID: <17265.45910.586450.774376@roam.psg.com> 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>
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>> 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
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