[geeks] Debian 4.0 Bittorrent for DVD

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 10:51:07 -0700
velociraptor <velociraptor at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/9/07, geeks at litfire.com <geeks at litfire.com> wrote:
> > Lionel Peterson said:
> > > I'll have to look into how bittorrent really works - I would have
> > > thought this was a more popular download, hence more sources, hence
> > > faster download... I've downloaded 12 Gig, and have only uploaded 944
> > > Meg so far.
> >
> > If you have NAT going on, forward ports 6881-6889 to the box you're
> > torrenting from to get the best speeds.  If you're doing all the
> > connecting outbound, you'll find that you go much slower.
> 
> Assuming a "modern" BT client, you only need one port, and you are
> better off choosing a high random port in case your ISP blocks BT
> traffic.  The BT tracker servers should be able to handle any port
> number.

You also need a NAT box that can sense the random port and automatically
create a redirect for it, or respond to something like UPnP requests.

How do you handle that?

For example, KBittorrent provides UPnP, but I can't figure out how to make it
work with my firewall machine.

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