My general philosophy on software changes is to modify the original Asus firmware as little as possible. Instead, I'm focusing my efforts on enhancing the routers functionality through the addition of external packages. In many cases, the external packages can replace (and greatly enhance) the original Asus binaries.

To that end, my next firmware image will not replace the existing Asus torrent client. Instead, you will be able to run any of the command-line torrent packages from this repository:

http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op.../cross/stable/

Torrent, ctorrent, and enhanced-ctorrent are all in the package list.

Regarding rtorrent, I looked at the project page. Getting it to work on the router shouldn't be all that hard.

- K.C.