Torrent/IP privacy?

colbert · 2009-08-27 19:36:56

I am looking for some means of "masking" my IP when using bittorrent. I see apps like PeerGuardian, TorrentPrivacy, etc. for Windows but I am wondering how I can do it in linux. I use torrentflux-b4rt, which uses bittornado and I don't see any means in the config for doing it there. I guess basically showing my IP as something different or hiding it altogether (I might be using the wrong terminology but I hope this makes sense hehe).

Thanks for any help.

Wintervenom · 2009-08-27 19:43:49

IPList in AUR.

colbert · 2009-08-27 20:02:43

Ah, I was searcing yaourt for torrent Thanks a lot!!

R00KIE · 2009-08-27 20:13:55

Mind you that PeerGuardian doesn't mask your ip .... it just refuses connections from known "bad" IPs.
You may also want to give moblock a look, it should use the same lists as PeerGuardian.

Pierre · 2009-08-27 20:14:10

Sorry, to tell you but hiding your IP is nonsense. Even if you are able to manage to spoof your IP you wont able to use bittorrent anymore as it requires direct connections.

And I doubt torrent will really work through tor and similar networks.

jt512 · 2009-08-27 21:01:11

colbert wrote:

I am looking for some means of "masking" my IP when using bittorrent. I see apps like PeerGuardian, TorrentPrivacy, etc. for Windows but I am wondering how I can do it in linux. I use torrentflux-b4rt, which uses bittornado and I don't see any means in the config for doing it there. I guess basically showing my IP as something different or hiding it altogether (I might be using the wrong terminology but I hope this makes sense hehe).
Thanks for any help.

moblock, in the AUR, is the Linux version of PeerGuardian.

Jay

jwwolf · 2009-08-28 03:08:19

Pierre wrote:

Even if you are able to manage to spoof your IP you wont able to use bittorrent anymore as it requires direct connections.
And I doubt torrent will really work through tor and similar networks.

Anomos(http://anomos.info/wp/)
Its avalible in AUR(anomos-git)

R00KIE · 2009-08-28 11:03:02

jwwolf wrote:

Pierre wrote:
Even if you are able to manage to spoof your IP you wont able to use bittorrent anymore as it requires direct connections.
And I doubt torrent will really work through tor and similar networks.
Anomos(http://anomos.info/wp/)
Its avalible in AUR(anomos-git)

It will need that everyone uses it and I doubt many people know about that so not much luck there, also the authors say anomos is slower than the current bt (and normal bt can be dog slow sometimes), this can discourage its usage and ... if one isn't using bittorrent to downloads illegal things then no worries

ZeroTruths · 2009-09-05 16:45:35

So between iplist and moblock, does anyone know which one is more efficient?
I've heard that when users try to use too many iptable rules, the computers start to slow down.

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