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PostPosted: Sun 09-12-2004 12:53PM 
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Question: Woiuld anyone be interested in running a BitTorrent tracker on campus, allowing people to share their "stuff" via BT? Could be useful for when, say, Half-Life 2 actually releases, or whenever the next "cool thing" stumbles along that would suck dry the bandwidth of any single computer trying to host it.

For those who think I'm playing big brother, a BT tracker is the server that coordinates BT clients in file transfers, and it's what BT clients connect to when they try to start snagging .torrents.

I can't run the tracker, myself, as I'm off campus as of this semester and you guys don't want a tracker running off of 512Mb synchronous cable internet over VPN. For that same reason, I'd prefer playing morroccas filled with nitroglyceren in a room filled with TNT over trying to grab files from on campus.

But I still think it'd be a good idea for anyone with a spare Linux box laying around.

If any compscis or ISTs read this, you might even try making a tiny utility that helps our less technicially-oriented friends in the job of making a .torrent and setting themselves up with the tracker.

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bit torrent is gay, why the hell would you want to use the damn thing


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PostPosted: Sun 09-12-2004 3:09PM 
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BT would help aleviate the bandwidth draw from any one computer when big things hit campus, like UT2K4 did last year. It's not a bad idea if you can limit it to UMR IP's only.

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PostPosted: Sun 09-12-2004 11:25PM 
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If it was UMR-only, I would support it. Beats 100 people grabbing something from one share.


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PostPosted: Sun 09-12-2004 11:37PM 
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WhtHawk wrote:
BT would help aleviate the bandwidth draw from any one computer when big things hit campus, like UT2K4 did last year. It's not a bad idea if you can limit it to UMR IP's only.
if its a linux box, iptables can handle that just fine


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PostPosted: Mon 09-13-2004 12:11AM 
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I've thought about it and it wouldn't be a bad idea, there's one problem

the best implementation would be if everybody just had pretty much all their shares on BT, but they would have to have a seperate torrrent for each. Then they would need to leave each torrent open.

So the idea works for a small amount of files like something that hits the campus netowrk (HL2 when it comes out. maybe) that would work


not a bad ides, just make sure you don't try to make it too many files.


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PostPosted: Mon 09-13-2004 9:23PM 
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I visited Texas A&M last year and they have a great system for handling local downloads on the network. They ran it all using a Directconnect hub. I was probably the best university setup I've ever seen. It would be a great way to do what you're talking about.

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