I've used btpd, which is excellent IMO. The only thing you'll find is you can't make it fake ratio/speed and such as I have heard you can do with rtorrent.
A simple script and I was able to just drop .torrent files into a directory on my desktop machine and using a cron job the .torrent files would be copied over and started automatically in btpd. The blacklists you could maybe do using PF? As for encryption, I cannot say as I've never tried that. Good luck with your project! On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Paolo Aglialoro <paol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > this week I got my hands over a working 200MHz i386 thin client "Neoware > ca5", see: http://www.jonshouse.co.uk/neoware_ca5.cgi > This machine had got a 32MB WinCE rom disk over a 44pin IDE bus which I > promptly removed ;))) and a RAM expansion slot which immediately got 256MB > as a whoopping present :))) I'm right now waiting from ebay a compact flash > to 44pin IDE adapter, so that I can stick in 16GB storage :))) > > So, this is the perfect torrentbox (and also angbandbox!): 15W max > operating, fanless, kinda "fire and forget" :))) > As soon as the card arrives the box will get a luxurious -current install > :))) > > On CLI I've always used rtorrent as a nice, powerful torrent client. > But this box is meant to run totally headless. > Which means I'll access to it only through ssh. > As far as I know, pls correct me if I'm wrong, rtorrent is not meant to be > run as a daemon, even though somebody on linux already tried to overcome > this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=53395 or > > http://flipsidereality.com/blog/linux/rtorrent-with-wtorrent-on-debian-etch-complete-howto/but > these look like dirty hacks. > > I'd therefore like to know which program I could run as a torrent daemon > with the following requisites: > 1. accessible/browsable through CLI/ssh every time I connect (http could be > a plus, also to upload .torrent files) > 2. supporting level1 IP blacklists > 3. supporting protocol encryption > > Any good hints for the clue bucket? > Thanks in advance
