Import PeerGuardian Blocklists into Ktorrent & Deluge

Posted on June 30th, 2008 in Applications, Networking by admin

Many lovers of PeerGuardian are out there, and some just happen to use linux. Luckily we have bit torrent clients that support PeerGuardian blocklists directly in the client, rather than affecting our entire internet connection. This is a rather simple prodcedure in both cases of Ktorrent and Deluge.

Note: Blocklists are not a fool proof protection and can come with their own problems. Please read up on the effectiveness of blocklists. That being said, every little bit helps.

Also See:

  1. Basics of iptables
  2. Iptables: How to save and restore rules at boot & shutdown
  3. Beating Sandvine on Linux with iptables
  4. How to Encrypt Bit Torrent Traffic With Ktorrent and Azurues

Beating Sandvine on Linux with iptables

Posted on June 21st, 2008 in Networking, Security by admin

Multiple sites reported a while ago that Comcast was using Sandvine to do tcp packet resets to throttle BitTorrent connections of their users. This practice may be a thing of the past as it’s been found a simple rule in the Linux firewall, iptables, can simply just block their reset packets, returning your BitTorrent back to normal speeds and allowing you to once again connect to all your seeds and peer. So, if you are tired of Sandvine (the application used by Comcast to throttle Bit Torrent with fake TCP packet resets) screwing with your BitTorrent and a user of GNU/Linux, then this is for you. I will tell you how to take your bandwidth back.

Also see:

  1. Basics of iptables
  2. Iptables: How to save and restore rules at boot & shutdown
  3. How to Encrypt Bit Torrent Traffic With Ktorrent and Azurues
  4. Import PeerGuardian Blocklists into Ktorrent & Deluge

Peer to Peer in Linux

Posted on March 17th, 2008 in Applications by admin

So you’ve made the switch to Linux but would still like to access Limewire, emule, bit torrent and/or Soulseek networks? Well you’re in luck as Linux has client applications for all of these networks and some mighty fine ones at that, along with access to some pretty nice legally free networks.

How to Encrypt Bit Torrent Traffic With Ktorrent and Azurues

Posted on March 5th, 2008 in Applications by admin

More and more ISP’s are limiting throttling BitTorrent traffic on their networks. By throttling BitTorrent traffic the speed of BitTorrent downloads decrease, and high speed downloads are out of the question.

The list of ISP’s that limit BitTorrent traffic, or plan to do so is growing every day, and according to the BBC, the ‘bandwidth war’ has begun.

Are you not sure if your traffic is being throttled Check the list of bad ISP’s.

But there is a solution. Encrypting your torrents will prevent throttling ISP’s from shaping your traffic. I will explain how to enable encryption in Azureus, ktorrent, Deluge the three most popular torrent clients in Linux.

Disable Opera’s BitTorrent client

Posted on March 4th, 2008 in Applications, Tweaks by admin

Platform: All desktop versions

Starting with version 9, Opera has a built-in client for BitTorrent, to simplify downloading and sharing of Torrent files.

Some may prefer to use a different third-party BitTorrent client with Opera, while others are on networks where all P2P activity is banned. Fear not, you can still use Opera!

Commandline BitTorrent

Posted on March 3rd, 2008 in Commandline Tools by admin

rtorrent is a command line bit torrent client for unix-based systems. It’s relatively simple to use. To install:

  • on Suse I was unable to find anything in the repo’s. So i grabbed the source from here 
    • rpm -Uvh rtorrent-0.7.6-1.1.i586.rpm
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    • rpm -Uvh libtorrent-0.11.6-1.1.i586.rpm
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    (both packages are available at the link above)

      

    

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  • run the application: rtorrent
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Usage


To simply download a torrent do the following:


rtorrent http://extratorrent.com/download/666052/openSUSE-10+2-GM-DVD-i386-iso.torrent


For further options see  the man page and the user guide.