[CentOS] bittorrent

[centos at atempleton.net]

On Tuesday 24 June 2008 12:20:23 pm William L. Maltby wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 12:58 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
> > Looks the only way now to grab a DVD is by torrent.
> >
> > What is the yum install XXXX name to get it on the machine?
>
> I use the rtorrent from rpmforge. Enable that repo and then yum install
> rtorrent. It's a lean, mean CLI machine!  :-)
>
> AND HURRY UP! My new "fat" pipe (potential 1.25MB/sec) has finally edged
> up to 85.5KB/sec. I need the help folks!  ;-)
>
<SNIP>
> BTW: here's a rtorrent command line if you decide on it.
>
> #!/bin/bash
> export SD=~/../shared/CentOS
> cd $SD
> rtorrent \
>     -s $SD \
>     -o check_hash=no,key_layout=qwerty \
>     -o peer_exchange=yes,dht=on \
>     *.torrent
>

Here is something that might help... 

http://compnetworking.about.com/od/bittorrent/qt/bittorrentports.htm