On 2004-10-05 10:04, Troy Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:52:06 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2004-10-05 21:06, Marcus Meng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Has anyone ever considered setting up a bittorrent tracker for FreeBSD > > > distributions? > > > > The usual methods (FTP, CVS, CVSup) work fine so far. What would that > > gain for the end-user who's sitting on a slow dialup link somewhere?
> The "gain" for dialup users would be indirect but ultimately everyone > would benefit. Those who chose to do CVSup and download ISOs from the > FTP server may see an indirect gain in speed as the bandwidth load > (from those downloading ISO's) would distributed to the people who > wish to help seed the torrent. It would obviously be a bigger help > around the time when new versions come out and the servers are being > hammered. Please don't use top-posting :-/ Especially when part of the thread is already using bottom-posting. I'm asking because I don't know: a) What a bittorrent tracker is. b) What it takes to install and set up one. c) Why would I prefer it over FTP/CVSup? Your reply to c) seems to be "to save bandwidth". The next logical question is "how is bandwidth saved and who is it saved from"? > I'm not sure if that explanation was clear or not but it seems obvious > to me what the bonuses would be. Not very, but I've seen BitTorrent being mentioned quite a few times in the past. I'm asking what it is, why one would use it, how it would be set up in order to learn more about BitTorrent. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
