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by erikj
Sat Nov 20, 2021 3:15 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: transmission will only send a torrent once to a client
Replies: 3
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Re: transmission will only send a torrent once to a client

In case an Internet search ends up here, for our unique use case, it seems that using aria2c in daemon mode works better for this "transfer an OS image" case as it always seeds. Even with my research on HAVE_ALL above and avoiding that, we found we had to restart transmission-daemon at times to get ...
by erikj
Fri Nov 12, 2021 1:48 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: transmission will only send a torrent once to a client
Replies: 3
Views: 23217

Re: transmission will only send a torrent once to a client

To make forward progress, I added some code to the aria2 client where, with a CLI flag, it will never send HAVE_ALL. This seemed easier than disabling the fast extension entirely. This will get me going for now. The client side was easier for us to modify because we support several distros and don't ...
by erikj
Thu Nov 11, 2021 11:20 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: transmission will only send a torrent once to a client
Replies: 3
Views: 23217

Re: transmission will only send a torrent once to a client

It looks like another option would be to modify the client to not support the 'fast extension' where this HAVE_ALL bitfield is available.

However, this normally seems to be negotiated rather than toggled with a flag.
by erikj
Wed Nov 10, 2021 11:36 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: transmission will only send a torrent once to a client
Replies: 3
Views: 23217

transmission will only send a torrent once to a client

Dear team - thank you so much for the transmission BT tool.

We are using BT as one of the methods to provision compute nodes with operating system images in a cluster manager.
The clients are using aria2c (but we tested with other clients, more on that later).
We are trying to replace the very old ...