I love transmission-daemon

[graudeejs]

net-p2p/transmission-daemon is the best torrent client for FreeBSD
before that i used to like rtorrent, but i had huge lags when downloading at high speed

transmission-daemon is different story, i have 62 active torrents... and downloading at high speed, no problems.

i wanted to share my experience in case anyone of you have problems with rtorrent.

also transmission daemon is easy to use
+ i like web interface www/transmission-web

I think transmission-daemon is a true unix app

[fronclynne]

ctorrent

> pkg_info -Rr /var/db/pkg/ctorrent-3.3.2/
Information for ctorrent-3.3.2:

Depends on:

>

[graudeejs]

yes, i know, but you need ctorrent per torrent, while 1 transmission per n torrents

and maybe i did something wrong, but ctorrent was checking hash every time on start

[mfaridi]

net-p2p/transmission-daemon is the best torrent client for FreeBSD
before that i used to like rtorrent, but i had huge lags when downloading at high speed

transmission-daemon is different story, i have 62 active torrents... and downloading at high speed, no problems.

i wanted to share my experience in case anyone of you have problems with rtorrent.

also transmission daemon is easy to use
+ i like web interface www/transmission-web

I think transmission-daemon is a true unix app

How you config it
I want use it with screen and no graphic interface, how I config it and set IP and control it from another place

[graudeejs]

{
"blocklist-enabled": 0,
"download-dir": "\/home\/Files\/torrents\/files\/",
"download-limit": 1000,
"download-limit-enabled": 0,
"encryption": 2,
"max-peers-global": 200,
"peer-port": 51413,
"pex-enabled": 1,
"port-forwarding-enabled": 0,
"rpc-authentication-required": 1,
"rpc-password": "PASSWORD",
"rpc-port": PORT,
"rpc-username": "USERNAME",
"rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx",
"rpc-whitelist-enabled": 1,
"upload-limit": 1000,
"upload-limit-enabled": 0
}

if you remove "rpc-whitelist" you can connect to transmission-daemon with transmission-wed from any IP

[mfaridi]

{
"blocklist-enabled": 0,
"download-dir": "\/home\/Files\/torrents\/files\/",
"download-limit": 1000,
"download-limit-enabled": 0,
"encryption": 2,
"max-peers-global": 200,
"peer-port": 51413,
"pex-enabled": 1,
"port-forwarding-enabled": 0,
"rpc-authentication-required": 1,
"rpc-password": "PASSWORD",
"rpc-port": PORT,
"rpc-username": "USERNAME",
"rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx",
"rpc-whitelist-enabled": 1,
"upload-limit": 1000,
"upload-limit-enabled": 0
}

if you remove "rpc-whitelist" you can connect to transmission-daemon with transmission-wed from any IP

I remove rpc-whitelist
but when I type
http://192.168.0.42:9091
in firefoxe from another IP I see this message
Unauthorized IP Address.

Either disable the IP address whitelist or add your address to it.

If you're editing settings.json, see the 'rpc-whitelist' and 'rpc-whitelist-enabled' entries.

If you're still using ACLs, use a whitelist instead. See the transmission-daemon manpage for details.

[ale]

What setting rpc-whitelist-enabled to 0?

[mfaridi]

What setting rpc-whitelist-enabled to 0?

whitelist enable to 0

[mfaridi]

this transmission setting I modify it

{
"blocklist-enabled": 0,
"download-dir": "\/usr\/home\/Mostafa",
"download-limit": 100,
"download-limit-enabled": 0,
"encryption": 2,
"max-peers-global": 200,
"peer-port": 51413,
"pex-enabled": 1,
"port-forwarding-enabled": 0,
"rpc-authentication-required": 1,
"rpc-password": "PASSWORD",
"rpc-port": 9091,
"rpc-username": "trans",
"upload-limit": 100,
"upload-limit-enabled": 0
}

[mfaridi]

I see understand another thing .transmission-daemon make directory in my .config home folder and I can see setting file there ,

but when I kill transmission with kill PID and then start it from terminal and delete whitelist line , and then I see that error , so I kill it again and run it again and go to setting file I see again whitelist and I understand setting file is not stable and it change every time

[ale]

What setting rpc-whitelist-enabled to 0?

[mfaridi]

this config dose not work for me I delete rpc whirelist and run transmission and set rpc-whitelist-enabled to 0 but dose not work and when I kill it and run afain I see config file change and I have rpc white list and rpc-whitelist-enabled again
I do not know why

[ale]

Can you try changing the setting while the daemon is not running?

[mfaridi]

Can you try changing the setting while the daemon is not running?

Yes , first I kill daemon and then change setting and then start it but after that I kill again it change

after change setting I can not connect to web interface too

[mfaridi]

there is no answer ?

[graudeejs]

{
"blocklist-enabled": 0,
"download-dir": "\/home\/Files\/torrents\/files\/",
"download-limit": 1000,
"download-limit-enabled": 0,
"encryption": 2,
"max-peers-global": 200,
"peer-port": 51413,
"pex-enabled": 1,
"port-forwarding-enabled": 0,
"rpc-authentication-required": 1,
"rpc-password": "PASSWORD",
"rpc-port": PORT,
"rpc-username": "USERNAME",
"rpc-whitelist-enabled": 0,
"upload-limit": 1000,
"upload-limit-enabled": 0
}

make sure you connect to right port.
set "rpc-whitelist-enabled" to 0

set red variables

[ctaranotte]

Both rtorrent and transmission are fine but:

1) transmission cannot be bound to a IP unlike rtorrent.
2) rtorrent cannot run as a daemon unlike transmission.

I know transmission can set the ToS (t option) but I find easier to filter, queue and monitor traffic by binding rtorrent to a specific IP.

[graudeejs]

have you never had lags On FreeBSD when downloading/uploading at 3 to 12Mb/s?

[ctaranotte]

I did not push rtorrent that far.

I have anyway found some useful tricks on calomel.org (https://calomel.org/rtorrent_mods.html).

With respect to the lags you are experiencing on FreeBSD, I would suggest to look in particular under:

* "Disconnect idle clients quickly",
* "Decrease the time delay when your client connects to the trackers",
* "Increase the rate at which pieces are requested from other peers", and
* "Limit connections per client (3 connections per 300 seconds per ip)".

I am assuming of course that your pf.conf and .rtorrent.rc are appropriately configured on your box.

[ale]

Maybe you hit this
http://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/1652

Look here
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1464162+0+current/cvs-ports

[corrosion]

What about mldonkey? I use it for years and I am very happy with it. Only problem is that it does not support Ares network..
Regards

[mfaridi]

{
"blocklist-enabled": 0,
"download-dir": "\/home\/Files\/torrents\/files\/",
"download-limit": 1000,
"download-limit-enabled": 0,
"encryption": 2,
"max-peers-global": 200,
"peer-port": 51413,
"pex-enabled": 1,
"port-forwarding-enabled": 0,
"rpc-authentication-required": 1,
"rpc-password": "PASSWORD",
"rpc-port": PORT,
"rpc-username": "USERNAME",
"rpc-whitelist-enabled": 0,
"upload-limit": 1000,
"upload-limit-enabled": 0
}

make sure you connect to right port.
set "rpc-whitelist-enabled" to 0

set red variables

after I install new version of transmission , everything work good and prefect and I can control it from another system in world

[hgratp]

(for headless system)

Found out (from transmission website) that in order to make settings in settings.json permanent, you need to stop the transmission daemon prior to editing the file otherwise your settings will be reset to their previous version.

So there is no need to pass all those flags in /etc/rc.conf, all you need to do is stop the daemon, configure settings.json to your needs and restart.

Hope it helps.

[fryshke]

[root@AeriePeak ~]# transmission-remote -st

CURRENT SESSION
Uploaded: 27.56 GiB
Downloaded: 4.08 GiB
Ratio: 6.75
Duration: 6 days

TOTAL
Started 14 times
Uploaded: 121.4 GiB
Downloaded: 247.1 GiB
Ratio: 0.49
Duration: 23 days

Love it too. <3

[dave]

Here is the full list of settings, with defaults filled in, formatted as json. This list is grouped and ordered in the same way as it is on the documentation page (https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/EditConfigFiles). Hope this saves someone the time. :beer

Edit to suit your needs, and then save it as: /usr/local/etc/transmission/home/settings.json, then restart transmission.


{

"alt-speed-enabled": 0,
"alt-speed-up": 50,
"alt-speed-down": 50,
"speed-limit-down": 100,
"speed-limit-down-enabled": false,
"speed-limit-up": 100,
"speed-limit-up-enabled": false,
"upload-slots-per-torrent": 14,

"blocklist-url": "",
"blocklist-enabled": false,

"download-dir": "\/your\/download\/dir",
"incomplete-dir": "\/your\/incomplete\/dir",
"incomplete-dir-enabled": false,
"preallocation": 1,
"rename-partial-files": true,
"start-added-torrents": true,
"trash-original-torrent-files": false,
"umask": 18,
"watch-dir": "\/your\/watch\/dir",
"watch-dir-enabled": false,

"cache-size-mb": 4,
"dht-enabled": true,
"encryption": 1,
"lazy-bitfield-enabled": true,
"lpd-enabled": false,
"message-level": 2,
"pex-enabled": true,
"prefetch-enabled": true,
"scrape-paused-torrents-enabled": true,
"script-torrent-done-enabled": false,
"script-torrent-done-filename": "",
"utp-enabled": true,

"bind-address-ipv4": "0.0.0.0",
"bind-address-ipv6": "::",
"peer-congestion-algorithm": "CuBIC",
"peer-limit-global": 240,
"peer-limit-per-torrent": 60,
"peer-socket-tos": "default",

"peer-port": 51413,
"peer-port-random-high": 65535,
"peer-port-random-low": 1024,
"peer-port-random-on-start": false,
"port-forwarding-enabled": true,

"download-queue-enabled": true,
"download-queue-size": 5,
"queue-stalled-enabled": true,
"queue-stalled-minutes": 30,
"seed-queue-enabled": false,
"seed-queue-size": 10,

"rpc-authentication-required": false,
"rpc-bind-address": "0.0.0.0",
"rpc-enabled": true,
"rpc-password": "password",
"rpc-port": 9091,
"rpc-url": "\/transmission\/",
"rpc-username": "username",
"rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1",
"rpc-whitelist-enabled": true,

"alt-speed-time-enabled": false,
"alt-speed-time-begin": 540,
"alt-speed-time-end": 1020,
"alt-speed-time-day": 127,
"idle-seeding-limit": 30,
"idle-seeding-limit-enabled": false,
"ratio-limit": 2.0,
"ratio-limit-enabled": false

}

[chessmaster]

net-p2p/transmission-daemon is the best torrent client for FreeBSD
before that i used to like rtorrent, but i had huge lags when downloading at high speed

transmission-daemon is different story, i have 62 active torrents... and downloading at high speed, no problems.

i wanted to share my experience in case anyone of you have problems with rtorrent.

also transmission daemon is easy to use
+ i like web interface www/transmission-web

I think transmission-daemon is a true unix app

When you installed transmission-daemon (assuming on a server), did you had to set up lfttp? Just curious because mine is using just the client and running pretty good? I installed it successfully and just want to know if I'm missing any other configs. Mainly a http client. Thanks! Also, do you care to share your settings that you use to optimize your performance?

[dave]

...because mine is using just the client and running pretty good?

This is a little ambiguous. Can you clarify what it is you are trying to ask? Requirements (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=transmission-daemon&stype=all) for net-p2p/transmission-daemon do not include something called lfttp. It does include net-p2p/transmission-web which provides a web front-end.

[chessmaster]

This is a little ambiguous. Can you clarify what it is you are trying to ask? Requirements (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=transmission-daemon&stype=all) for net-p2p/transmission-daemon do not include something called lfttp. It does include net-p2p/transmission-web which provides a web front-end.

That's why I love this forums. You get straight-forth animated answers. :) I would like to use https:// instead of ipaddress:port.What can I use to accomplish this my friend.

[dave]

AFAIK, the RPC facility does not support SSL.

[chessmaster]

AFAIK, the RPC facility does not support SSL.

WTF... I need to pay attention to what I write....that's a very bad habit of mine. I'm sorry the program is called lighttpd. I was typing lftp because, I was using it at the moment. Apologize for the typo.

[dave]

WTF... I need to pay attention to what I write....that's a very bad habit of mine. I'm sorry the program is called lighttpd. I was typing lftp because, I was using it at the moment. Apologize for the typo.

No, you don't need to install lighttpd.

[chessmaster]

No, you don't need to install lighttpd.

Thanks and after some heavy Scroggle. I see that it's not possible. Appreciate your help and patience. By the way what settings did you use "if you did", to have good performance?