TripShock Posted November 13, 2008 Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 I want to use a proxy for tracker as well as p2p connections (a local proxy residing on my computer, like tor), but I want to bypass it for p2p connections to other computers on my LAN, so that we can download cooperatively. Is there any way to achieve this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTHK Posted November 13, 2008 Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 Tor isn't really usable for torrenting, nor should it be used. Also, running multiple torrent clients on a LAN can be detrimental. Finally, is LPD already picking peers up? You'll need to run the same torrent on multiple computers to test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TripShock Posted November 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 Local Peer Discovery seems to show a few discovered peers, but I don't know the IPs because they don't show up on the peer list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTHK Posted November 13, 2008 Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 Is your router multicast capable? Try running the same torrents, but strip tracker addresses and disable DHT and PEX before starting the torrent. Have one computer have a complete copy, and the others nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TripShock Posted November 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 I am on a college network...a LAN...and we are connected to the internet through a single IP address...earlier when torrents weren't blocked we could all download the same torrent and get better speeds because of cooperative downloading...now torrents are blocked so we have to proxy p2p connections...but this way we can't cooperate.I should have explained all this earlier...sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTHK Posted November 13, 2008 Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 College routers might support multicast, but most likely you'd need to be on the same segment as another computer..No team downloading at all then eh? Maybe you could create some kinda private network or something.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TripShock Posted November 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 Earlier, cooperative downloading use to work even with two computers on two different subnetworks...now it doesn't seem to work at all, even with computers on the same segment.What I was really looking for was a simple option like "Bypass proxy for local connections", or something like that...I guess I should put this in the Requested Features forum... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTHK Posted November 13, 2008 Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 How was co-op achieved, via multicast or some student created mechanism?Also, proxy wont be used for peer communication if someone connects to you directly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TripShock Posted November 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 We didn't do anything...by chance some of us were just downloading the same torrent and we started getting spikes in the speed...in the order of 6-10 MBps When all of us are using proxies, no one will be able to initiate a direct connection to me...if he does there is no use because he won't be using a proxy and hence not downloading from the internet at all...only from me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTHK Posted November 13, 2008 Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 If you didn't do anything, and since I highly doubt the college was forwarding for you, it was probably done through Local Peer Discovery. It doesn't work anymore, even without proxies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TripShock Posted November 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 I don't think the college routers are forwarding ports because DHT doesn't work. I don't know if LPD works anymore...haven't tried without proxies because torrents don't work that way anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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