HEKATE

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
BUGS
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS

NAME

hekate − a BitTorrent seeder

SYNOPSIS

hekate option... directory...

DESCRIPTION

Hekate is a BitTorrent seeder, able to seed thousands of torrents to thousands of peers.

OPTIONS

−t

Do not contact any trackers.

−h

Do not participate in the DHT.

−4

Contact trackers over IPv4 only.

−6

Contact trackers over IPv6 only.

−p port

Specify the listening TCP port.

−N max_unchoked

Specify the maximum number of simultaneously unchoked peers (50 by default). The maximum number of connected peers will be set to 10 times that.

−C credit

Specify the initial credit given to a peer, in bytes. This is the amount that will be served to a peer before it is considered for choking or dropping. The default is 1048576 (1MB).

−T time

Specify the maximum time for which a peer can remain unchoked before it is considered for choking or dropping. The default is 300 (5 minutes).

−d level

Specify the debug level. The default is 0. A value of 4 will display every BitTorrent message sent or received.

directory...

The list of directories in which hekate should (recursively) look for torrents.

BUGS

Plenty. This is experimental software, run at your own risk.

SEE ALSO

transmission(1), deluge(1), rtorrent(1).

AUTHORS

Pejman Attar, Yoann Canal, Juliusz Chroboczek and Gabriel Kerneis.