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onamattuphere

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Registered: 2010-09-11

Posts: 7

[SOLVED]Script for pausing torrents during LAN traffic/resume @ idle

Does such a script exist?
To elaborate:
This script should monitor the LAN for any internet traffic and allow torrents to download while other nodes on the network are not using bandwith. As soon as another node is requesting stuff from the interweb, the script will pause all the torrents and prioritize the other nodes to get their packets. Only when no other nodes are using the internet will the script allow torrents to resume.
Is there such a script available, or would it be very complicated to write in bash or perl?

Last edited by onamattuphere (2010-09-17 02:52:38)

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quigybo

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Registered: 2009-01-15

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Re: [SOLVED]Script for pausing torrents during LAN traffic/resume @ idle

I'm not too versed in it myself, but it seems like you want some kind of QoS [1] or traffic shaping [2]. Quite a few routers have QoS these days, otherwise you can try loading firmware like DD-WRT [3] onto it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_of_service
[2] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rou … ic_shaping
[3] http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index

onamattuphere

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Registered: 2010-09-11

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED]Script for pausing torrents during LAN traffic/resume @ idle

Everything I ever wanted to know about this subject and more. Great links!
Thank you.

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