From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 9 08:58:11 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 D2E9816A421 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 08:58:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@troback.com) Received: from devil.troback.com (c-195-216-040-156.cust.thalamus.net [195.216.40.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A37243D49 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 08:58:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@troback.com) Received: from [10.46.150.25] (server25.extraco.gelita-se.local [10.46.150.25]) by devil.troback.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E08C611411; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 08:57:39 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4371BA20.9060501@troback.com> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 09:58:08 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_Trob=E4ck?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051108) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randy Bush 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> <17265.45910.586450.774376@roam.psg.com> In-Reply-To: <17265.45910.586450.774376@roam.psg.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 08:58:12 -0000 I haven't tried it my self but it looks like what you are asking for! http://www.torrentflux.com \\troback Randy Bush wrote: >>>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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Anders Trobäck http://www.troback.com/ ============================================ Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" --------------------------------------------