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Dedicate transmission to specific network card?
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 7:06 pm
by Monkey of Rage
This is probably a no cause dozens of google searches came up with nothing, but is there a way to dedicate one of my two network cards specifically to Transmission?
Re: Dedicate transmission to specific network card?
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 3:00 pm
by wkearney99
I would also be interested in knowing how to do this. I'd like to bind transmission to only a specific network interface (or IP address) on a machine that has several of them.
Re: Dedicate transmission to specific network card?
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 12:34 am
by zloeber
I third this notion, if this is not an option as of yet it would be a really really cool one for future releases.
Re: Dedicate transmission to specific network card?
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 10:49 am
by astrocrab
i'm the 4-th
Re: Dedicate transmission to specific network card?
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:13 am
by ijuxda
This appears to be somewhat difficult to achieve in practice. Each platform has its own methods for binding to an interface, while on linux this also apparently requires root privileges (at least with the SO_BINDTODEVICE approach I tried).
I'll see what other programs do to try and find a better way, in the meantime you can try
bind-interface (if you are on linux).
Re: Dedicate transmission to specific network card?
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 3:27 pm
by slowace
I've wished for this same feature, in order to be able to control transmission's bandwidth using QOS at the router instead of using arbitrary speed limits from within transmission. For now, I'm running the daemon in a tiny linux VM (running under VirtualBox) which has a virtual network interface with its own IP address. Works great, but it's a bit of a challenge to set up at first (have to mount my download directory on the host OS as a share in linux, and configure the daemon to use that directory) and of course there's some additional memory and CPU overhead.
Re: Dedicate transmission to specific network card?
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:13 pm
by monch9
Hi,
I'm new to the Transmission/NAS world. My ReadyNAS currently has 2 networks connected to it. One is the VPN router, the other a regular router. Can I set it such that Transmission will only chose the regular router for torrents (up/download). How do I install the patch that x190 pointed to?
Monch