[CentOS] CentOS 5 and bittorrent

Akemi at gmail wrote:
> On 4/12/07, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:
>> $ ctorrent -D 250 -U 250 CentOS-5.0-x86_64-bin-DVD.torrent
>> ....
>
> I suppose may people use a router at home.  So, some note about
> opening ports sould be useful.  Anyone?

yes, open one or more ports.  ctorrent requires a port for each 
concurrent torrent instance, while other torrent apps like Azureus can 
share one port for multiple torrents.  Forward this port through your 
firewall/router to the torrent client.    Configure said client to use 
said port.      ctorrent takes a -p option to specify the port.