Running torrentflux-b4rt on Clark Connect box.

[fuzzybabybunny]

All is well now

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Ok, I've got torrentflux-b4rt up and running. And it's not locking up the system anymore. The lockups went away on their own. Because that makes sense.

Anyway, it's not finding very many seeders and download rates are abysmal. Out of a very popular torrent with hundreds of seeders, I'm only connected to 8, and the download speed is 5kB/s. On my Vista box with uTorrent I'm connected to 60+ seeders and download rates are 400kB/s.

Any idea what's going on?

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I've successfully installed and gotten up and running torrentflux-b4rt.
Now I have a new problem.
I tried to load a torrent. Ok, this worked fine. It looked like it was starting to download it, but only at a measly 5kB/s.

Now my Clark Connect box is completely locked up.

Can't access it via SSH.
Can't access its web config screen.
192.168.1.1 doesn't reply
I can't access the network drives that are on my CC box.
I can't access the torrentflux-b4rt web config screen.

Oddly enough, my CC is also acting as my internet router, and the internet is still working fine (THANK GOD). My uTorrent on my Vista machine is working just fine as well, downloading the same torrent as above at 500KB/s.

Great. Just great. After hours and hours and my entire weekend basically obliterated trying to figure out all these crazy Linux terms and getting this simple thing to work this is what happens. Why is it so hard? Why doesn't it just work?! Ahhhhhghfdlgeg oeoeg eoigeogj eo ge



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I'm doing all of this through SSH.

From a post on the CC forums:

You will need a working installation of php and mysql, follow the instructions to upgrade php and install php-cli, using the php5 repository listed here
http://www.clarkconnect.com/de...per/betas/20070420.php

download and untar the tarball, using Code:

cd /var/tmp
wget http://download.berlios.de/tf-...b4rt_1.0-beta1.tar.bz2
tar jvxf torrentflux-b4rt_1.0-beta1.tar.bz2


move the html directory to your website root, like soCode:

cd torrentflux-b4rt
mv html /var/www/html/torrentfluxb4rt


point your browser at http://cciphere/torrentfluxb4rt/setup.php
follow through the install process, add in your mysql server username and password, and tick the box that says create table
You will need to make the config directory writeable, like so:
Code:

chmod 777 /var/www/html/torrentfluxb4rt/inc/config


The setup should finish, it may complain about some missing commands for optional components but these are fine.
Delete setup.phpCode:

rm /var/www/html/torrentfluxb4rt/setup.php


Point your browser at http://cciphere/torrentfluxb4rt/ and login. The first time you login will be your admin account so remember your password! check the settings and off you go

I'm stuck on the bolded part. What does it mean to "point my browser" at this url? I'm logged into my Linux box via SSH in command line. There is no browser. Do they want me to open it in Firefox on my Vista system? If I do, I just get a "Server Not Found" error. I don't see how opening this on my Windows system will configure anything on my Linux box.

 

[Netopia]

I believe that they want you to do this on some GUI desktop. If so, in your case, on your Vista system, you would probably go to:

http://(your clark connect machine's name or IP address)/torrentfluxb4rt/setup.php

so maybe something like:

http://gateway.clarkconnect.la...rentfluxb4rt/setup.php

or

http://192.168.1.1/torrentfluxb4rt/setup.php

Joe

PS What software do you use for your panoramas on your site?

 

[Nothinman]

I'm stuck on the bolded part. What does it mean to "point my browser" at this url? I'm logged into my Linux box via SSH in command line. There is no browser. Do they want me to open it in Firefox on my Vista system?

Technically there might be a browser on your CC system, I use w3m almost once or twice a day. But they almost certainly want you to use your client machine.

If I do, I just get a "Server Not Found" error. I don't see how opening this on my Windows system will configure anything on my Linux box.

Then use the IP address or add the hostname to your hosts file so that it resolves. They're assuming that you can resolve the name of your CC box from other boxes on the network which if you don't have a DNS setup won't work. And that php file will let you configure torrentflux, that's why you had to use chmod to make the permissions stupidly insecure on that on that config file.

 

[Brazen]

Is your clarkconnect box set up to server web pages?

I don't see how opening this on my Windows system will configure anything on my Linux box.

You are supposed to connect to the webpages being served on the clarkconnect box using your browser from your client computer. You connect to the setup.php page and then you enter some info and it runs scripts on the server to set up some database entries that are needed for torrentflux-b4rt to work. You will then use the web interface to connect to your clarkconnect box and manage your torrents and the files downloaded through the web pages.

It kinda sounds like this is not what you want? If you are not wanting a web interface and just want to download torrents from the command line, then you should use something like bitTornado. BitTornado is available in the Ubuntu repositories if you could use Ubuntu. You just install it with "sudo aptitude -y install bittornado" and then you use it from the command line. You should be able to get help with the commandline syntax with "man bittornado" or "bittornado --help".

I do use torrentflux-b4rt and it's web interface is pretty spectacular, though.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Ok, I've got torrentflux-b4rt up and running. And it's not locking up the system anymore. The lockups went away on their own. Because that makes sense.

Anyway, it's not finding very many seeders and download rates are abysmal. Out of a very popular torrent with hundreds of seeders, I'm only connected to 8, and the download speed is 5kB/s. On my Vista box with uTorrent I'm connected to 60+ seeders and download rates are 400kB/s.

Any idea what's going on?

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

All is well now

 

[Nothinman]

Did you forward the correct ports to that machine?

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Did you forward the correct ports to that machine?

Heh, I was trying, but then I realized I shouldn't be forwarding ports at all. My CC box is both my router and my file server. Since torrentflux runs on the computer that is also the router, forwarding ports, uh, to itself made no sense. All I had to do was open the ports that torrentflux uses to incoming TCP traffic.

Not sure whether or not I like torrentflux yet, or rather, BitTornado which is what Torrentflux actually uses. I'm used to using uTorrent, which is extremely quick in finding lots of seeds and connecting to them for great download speeds. It's also great at finding peers and intelligently using my upload bandwidth. It'll max out my upload when everything else is idle and throttle it down automatically when I use the internet for other things like browsing. Torrentflux on the other hand takes a good five minutes or more to get going on the download side, and the upload side is a mess. My upload max is around 55kB/s, and when it's uploading at 45-50kB/s things like web browsing starts to slow down. There is no option for intelligent management of upload bandwidth, and when I specify a max of 40kB/s for uploading, it frequently exceeds this anyway for some reason. Many times it'll also be seeding at really slow rates like 10kB/s.

 

[Nothinman]

I never had any speed issues with the base bittorrent client or bittornado but I haven't used either for a long time.