[How to] rtorrent & ntorrent

[msj33]

Hi

I am having severe problems with getting Rtorrent to work proberly.

I have read the whole thread, but can not get it to work

I also end up having problems with "a timeout was reached"

Have tried everything(reinstallation, firewall settings etc.)

Can someone please post WORKING firewall, rtorrent.conf and S99rtorrent files - then i can compare them to what i have,

Hope you can help me out here, because i really wanna start using Rtorrent on my Asus wl500g Premium

My setup is excatly as gouryella posts on the thread.

I have Rtorrent 0.7.9-2 and libtorrent 0.11.9-1

But i am a bit confused about S99rtorrent.

Should it only have:
#!/bin/sh
/opt/bin/screen -dmS rtorrent rtorrent -o import="/opt/etc/rtorrent.conf" >&1 >/tmp/rtl
or

Should i preserve the original one, and just add the above?

Thanks

Morten

[wirespot]

S99rtorrent is just a side issue, if rtorrent doesn't work when started directly it won't work better when running in screen.

But here's how I start it, anyway:

(/opt/bin/screen -d -m -fn \
/opt/bin/rtorrent -o import=/usr/local/sbin/.rtorrent.rc) &

Regarding connectivity, I suspect you may have firewall issues. What ports are you using in your rtorrent config? Have you allowed them to be accessed in the firewall? Please remember that the Virtual Servers part of the graphical admin interface is only for port forwarding, ie. allowing traffic from outside to reach computers in your LAN. But if you need to open ports for something that runs on the router you need to use iptables commands in /usr/local/sbin/post-firewall.

For instance, if you have "port_range = 65000-65535" in rtorrent.rc, you need to have something like this in /usr/local/sbin/post-firewall:

iptables -I INPUT 1 -p tcp -i "$1" --syn --dport 65000:65535 -j ACCEPT

Also, if you have "dht = on" and "dht_port = 65000", you also need to open 65000 on UDP like this:

iptables -I INPUT 1 -p udp -i "$1" --dport 65000 -j ACCEPT

[msj33]

I used standard ports 10000-11000 - Even tried to change them without luck.

I have also portforwarded the ports in my Dlink Modem/router.

I have Enhanced Ctorrent running at the moment with YODCTCS, without any issues. Except, it is very slow and somehow buggy.

I have the following setup in my files:

/opt/etc/rtorrent.conf

scgi_port = localhost:5000
session = /tmp/mnt/disc1_1/torrent/session
port_range = 10000-11000
directory = /tmp/mnt/disc1_1/torrent/dl
check_hash = yes
encryption = prefer_plaintext
stop_on_ratio = 100
upload_rate = 50
max_uploads = 15

/usr/local/sbin/post-firewall

for P in 10000:11000; do
  iptables -I INPUT 1 -p tcp --syn -i "$1" --dport $P -j ACCEPT

/opt/etc/init.d/S99rtorrent (Is this correct??)

#!/bin/sh
/opt/bin/screen -dmS rtorrent rtorrent -o import="/opt/etc/rtorrent.conf" >&1 >/tmp/rtl

As soon as i start Rtorrent i get "a timeout was reached" both in Screen and Ntorrent.

Both Session and Directory paths are created with admin permissions.

Everyone says, that its a firewall issue - but where? I opened both ports in IPTABLES and my Modem/router.

My ASUS is NOT setup like a router - Only as an Access point - Don't know if this has any effect to the issue.

So what's next? Where do i go from here?

[msj33]

Does anyone have a solution on the above issue?

[nsec]

If I`m now using Transmission as a torrent client, is it necessarily to remove Transmission before installing rTorrent ?

When I installed Transmission I used Wengi`s instructions ( http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=10307 ). So if i want to setup rTorrent do I have to remove or modify something ?

Thanks !

[nsec]

If I`m now using Transmission as a torrent client, is it necessarily to remove Transmission before installing rTorrent ?

When I installed Transmission I used Wengi`s instructions ( http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=10307 ). So if i want to setup rTorrent do I have to remove or modify something ?

Thanks !

Somebody ? Help

[gouryella]

Hi!

I followed gouryella's "how to", And managed to make it run, but now, when I put something to download it says Timeout was Reached.
How can I fix that...
I'm a totally newbie when it comes to linux...
Pls HELP!

Mayby problem with firewall, there is code working for me

#!/bin/sh
#for webserver ftp ssh
iptables -D INPUT -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 81 -j ACCEPT
#iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport censored -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT

#for amule
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 4662 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 4672 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 4665+3 -j ACCEPT

#for rtorrent ?
iptables -I INPUT 1 -p tcp --syn -i "$1" --dport 10000:11000 -j ACCEPT

#webserver prerouting
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $1 -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination $4:81

#for rtorrent ?
for P in 10000:11000; do
  iptables -I INPUT 1 -p tcp --syn -i "$1" --dport $P -j ACCEPT
done

iptables -A INPUT -j DROP

[fukazzz]

I followed gouryella's instructions and everything is wokring! that's cool. What I did, is that I renamed S99rtorrent to S99rtorrent.old, made chmod -x S99rtorrent.old and created in /opt/etc/init.d/S99rtorrent with gouryella's contents. I also made chmod +x to it. My problem - it does not start automatically after reboot. I have to do sh /opt/etc/init.d/S99rtorrent It's quite not good, so what is the problem? As I said, I put an execution flag to it, why doesn't it start itselfe?

[darkside40]

Has anybody already tried to get rtorrent working with rTWi on the 500gP?

[wirespot]

I know it works with rtGui. But I'm not sure you'll get either of them to work on the router, I don't think the PHP there has xmlrpc in it (and I'm not keen on running PHP at all on the router, it's too damn heavy.)

What I did is have lighttpd on the router do RPC with the rtorrent RPC socket, and installed rtGui on my PC, where I have an Apache and PHP with xmlrpc. Makes sense, since I need my PC on anyway whenever I wanna check out rtorrent. Then again, if you want to be able to do this from outside your LAN... you're pretty much out of luck if the PHP on the router really doesn't have xmlrpc.

On a side note, I think rtGui looks better.

[cupacup]

Hello i had found this web client and it works great especially with Prism.

[darkside40]

So i installed rTWi just now on my 500gP, if you combine this HowTo and the instructions from the rTWi Homepage it is no problem.

It also works with only the scgi_port instruction, no need for RPC2 or something like that.

It doesnt look that pretty, but what is more important to me, is that it runs very smooth on the Hardware.

[bigphantom]

i tried this just few minutes ago, seems i cannot find rtorrent package; Any ideeas ?
firmware 1.9.2.7-7g

[admn@(none) root]$ ipkg update
Downloading http://wl500g.dyndns.org/ipkg/Packages
Updated list of available packages in /opt/lib/ipkg/lists/wl500g
Downloading http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/unslung/wl500g/Packages
Updated list of available packages in /opt/lib/ipkg/lists/unslung
Successfully terminated. 

[admn@(none) root]$ ipkg install rtorrent
Nothing to be done
An error ocurred, return value: 4.
Collected errors:
[B]Cannot find package rtorrent.[/B]
Check the spelling or perhaps run 'ipkg update' 

[gouryella]

i tried this just few minutes ago, seems i cannot find rtorrent package; Any ideeas ?
firmware 1.9.2.7-7g

try:

ipkg install ipkg-opt

I have ipkg-opt - 0.99.163-10 - The Itsy Package Manager on 1.9.2.7-10 (http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op...le/Packages.gz)

if do not work (this is from wengi guide): http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=10307

wget http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable/ipkg-opt_0.99.163-10_mipsel.ipk
ipkg.sh install ipkg-opt_0.99.163-10_mipsel.ipk
wget http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable/uclibc-opt_0.9.28-13_mipsel.ipk
ipkg.sh install uclibc-opt_0.9.28-13_mipsel.ipk
ipkg update

ipkg update
ipkg upgrade

[bigphantom]

thanks gouryella

i've finally succeded,

just a quick summary

in 1.9.2.7-7 firmware, because i guess ipkg.conf file had no available links to ipkg packages i could not intall rtorrent.

upgraded to 1.9.2.7-10 firmware, (tried to mantain config of my flash usb) the i could not intalled the ipkg-opt package indicated only forcing it, and then rtorrent went straight through, using p2p user, no automatic startup (yet) , firewall etc ...

i've noted down, everythinhg i did so i could post later on an updated version of the tutorial.

i get this error, but rtorrent works, (it downloads and uploads), i have no ideea why, and nor had i understood the previous explanation for this case

[admin@asusbox root]$ sh /opt/etc/init.d/S99rtorrent
[: missing argument after `RTORRENT_DEFAULT'
[: missing argument after `RTORRENT_DEFAULT'
[: missing argument after `RTORRENT_DEFAULT'
Usage: /etc/init.d/rtorrent {start|stop|restart|force-reload}

i would like to start rtorrent automatically, but i yet was a=unable to understand some points from here , and not knowing where to post, i post here:

Q1.- that big code has to entirely replace my S99rtorrent ?

Q2.- regarding base="/opt/home/torrent", i've setup my download folder as /opt/ext2/torr (/opt/ext2 -is the mount place of my hdd); Should i change it with mine ?

Q3. regarding config="/opt/home/${user}/.rtorrent.rc"
i have troubles understanding if i should leave it like this, or i should change it to something else. ($user being what ?)

Q4. (and final one)

Add the following lines to ~/.profile:

alias rt='su -c "screen -r" p2p'
chmod a+rw `tty`
stty start undef
stty stop undef

till now, everything i have in my profile file, is put in my /opt/etc/profile, see below; What does ~/.profile mean ? should i put that line in the file at this address /opt/etc/profile, or not ?

export TERMINFO=/opt/share/terminfo
alias mc="mc -c"

alias savereboot="flashfs save && flashfs commit && flashfs enable && reboot"

# Make ls default -la with color coding
alias ls="ls --color=auto -la"

# Make pss a grep ps function
alias pss="ps axf | grep"

# df human readable (Only works with coreutils installed!)
alias df="df -h"

# To start nload with DSL 6000 settings: 'nld'
#alias nld="nload -t 200 -s 7 -i 6656 -o 640 -u H eth1"

#added for rtorrent
alias rt='su -c "screen -r" p2p'
chmod a+rw `tty`
stty start undef
stty stop undef