Transmission

Hi.

I was wondering whether Transmission supports having multiple gateways in one way or another (or if there is another bittorrent client, that do).

I have to separate gateways, with separate public ip-adresses. Would it be possible for one instance of Transmission to use both of them?

I know, that I could just run separate instances of transmisison, and have them share the pieces they download, however as far as I know, they would then have to keep seperate local copies of the files.

So is it possible to either:

• Run a single instances of transmission, that uses multiple NICs
• Run a single instance of transmission, using seperate ports (that is then redirected to the seperate gateways through a seperate router)
• Run multiple instances of transmission sharing the same local copies of the downloaded files.

Hey,
I'm trying to do the same. Has any solution been found?

-- Anren

Do you know what you are doing?

The answer to your question is: there is no "solution" needed for Transmission. You use one instance, no multiple NICs needed, if the router is multi-WAN then that's it, if you have multiple routers, then just define the multiple gateways on the OS. Don't even think about the other dumb ideas.

Perhaps a "solution" is needed for some router, but I don't think so, multi-WAN routers do this all the time, you can control if Transmission uses only one route, or two (let's assume you only have 2 WANs), map the port correclty...

From the tracker and peer side, that's where the mess could be: the tracker sees 2 different clients connecting, not simultaneously, but sometimes one, sometimes the other, and it doesn't understand the statistics (since it thinks its 2 clients -- but some private trackers have already adapted to multi-WAN clients, and store 2 IPs as valid for one user, and somehow distinguish from 1 client w/2 IPs, and 2 clients; those who haven't adapted will probably ban you, so you better first ask one of their administrators or support). The peers will work fine for downloading, using both WANs, and probably work fine for uploading... again thinking its 2 peers, they'll connect to one, the other, or both simultaneously.