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Re: [LUG] DNS & Bittorrent

 
On 15/10/06, Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ben Goodger wrote:
>
> My friend says "windows is likely using SNMP or whatever to find an
> external server, while linux is firing everything at 192.168.1.1
> < http://192.168.1.1> and expecting it to redirect the request" which is
> probably correct

Sounds like technobabble to me.

My guess is the GNU/Linux Torrent clients are using too much bandwidth,
and you need to restrict them appropriately. If you can't find settings
in the Torrent client, just stick in something like Wondershaper.

It happens while it's not downloading any torrents, as I said.

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