How to KEEP Utorrent from banning peers...

[eltsdrac]

There's a lot of discussion about how to ban peers for bad data/hash failures but I've run into what I think is a more unique issue. I frequent a private tracker site at which often times the seeder has multiple computers behind a router with a lot of bandwidth doing the initial seeding with multiple computers. So when I look in the peer info I'll see the same IP seeding from 3-6 different ports. Almost immediately U-torrent sets about banning the multiple connections and the data stops downloading. I've tried using the "add peer" feature and it still bans them. I DO NOT want to resort to a third party program like peer guardian or protowall, and it's going to be a huge pain to maunually add the ip's of every seeder to the index.dat which I'm not sure exact what format I would have to construct it in. I don't really frequent open trackers so is there a way to keep it from banning all ip's or an easy way to exclude the ones I want from the ban list? BTW I'm using U-torrent 1600. TIA

[Ultima]

Nope, no way to exclude, but µTorrent doesn't actually ban users just for multiple connections... Or at least I've never heard of that kind of behavior (unique indeed ;o). Anyhow, try letting µTorrent allow multiple connections from the same IP (bt.allow_same_ip).

[eltsdrac]

So I can't just put an allow XXX.XXX.XXX:XXXXX line in the ipfilter.dat somehow? I already set bt.allow_same_ip:*true...it's just strange that it does it. So basically I'm just screwed then? I can't keep pushing the reset bans button every 2 mins on a 5gb file...

[Ultima]

The FAQ says that excludes aren't allowed in ipfilter.dat.

[eltsdrac]

that's silly...thanks anyway...