I need to distribute extremely large files over separated networks. (Netherlands to China, and Netherlands to India), files sizes vary from 5 to 50GB. Since file is stored on several machines, and must be transmitted to several machines I would like to use BitTorrent protocol to speed up and streamline the process.
How can I set up a torrent server on my Ubuntu machine in order to achieve this, and what do I need to take into account?
I haven't found any software so far, that would be available in Ubuntu repository for this task.
Best Answer
The BitTorrent protocol is a peer to peer protocol.
This means it does not follow the classic client - server model.
Any torrent client software you can find for Ubuntu is also server software!