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* `aquatic_udp`: UDP BitTorrent tracker
* `aquatic_ws`: WebTorrent tracker (experimental)
These are described in detail below, after the general information.
## Copyright and license
Copyright (c) 2020 Joakim Frostegård
Distributed under Apache 2.0 license (details in `LICENSE` file.)
## aquatic_udp
## Installation prerequisites
Aims to implements the [UDP BitTorrent protocol](https://libtorrent.org/udp_tracker_protocol.html), except that it:
- Install rust with rustup (stable rust is recommended).
- Install cmake with your package manager.
- Clone the git repository and refer to the next section.
## Run
The command line interfaces for `aquatic_udp` and `aquatic_ws` are identical.
To run the respective tracker, just run its binary. You can also run any of
the helper scripts, which will compile the binary for you and pass on any
command line parameters.
To run with default settings:
```sh
./scripts/run-aquatic-udp.sh
```
```sh
./scripts/run-aquatic-ws.sh
```
To print default settings to standard output, pass the "-p" flag to the binary:
```sh
./scripts/run-aquatic-udp.sh -p
```
```sh
./scripts/run-aquatic-ws.sh -p
```
To adjust the settings, save the output of the previous command to a file and
make your changes. The values you will most likely want to adjust are
`socket_workers` (number of threads reading from and writing to sockets) and
`address` under the `network` section (listening address). This goes for both
`aquatic_udp` and `aquatic_ws`. Some documentation of the various options is
available in source code files `aquatic_udp/src/lib/config.rs` and
`aquatic_ws/src/lib/config.rs`.
Then run the binaries with a "-c" argument pointing to the file, e.g.:
```sh
./scripts/run-aquatic-udp.sh -c "/path/to/aquatic-udp-config.toml"
```
```sh
./scripts/run-aquatic-ws.sh -c "/path/to/aquatic-ws-config.toml"
```
## aquatic_udp: UDP BitTorrent tracker
Aims to implements the
[UDP BitTorrent protocol](https://libtorrent.org/udp_tracker_protocol.html),
except that it:
* Doesn't care about IP addresses sent in announce requests. The packet
source IP is always used.
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Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
### Installation and usage
Install rust with rustup, cmake with your package manager and clone the
repository. Then, compile and run `aquatic_udp`:
```sh
./scripts/run-aquatic-udp.sh
```
To print default configuration as toml, pass the "-p" flag to the binary:
```sh
./scripts/run-aquatic-udp.sh -p
```
Example output:
Default configuration:
```toml
socket_workers = 1
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user = 'nobody'
```
To adjust the settings, save this text to a file and make your changes. The
values you will most likely want to adjust are `socket_workers` (number of
threads reading from and writing to sockets) and `network.address`. (Some
documentation of the various options is available in source code file
`aquatic_udp/src/lib/config.rs`.) Then run aquatic with a "-c" argument
pointing to the file, e.g.:
```sh
./scripts/run-aquatic-udp.sh -c "tmp/aquatic-udp.toml"
```
### Benchmarks
Performance was compared to [opentracker](http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/opentracker/) using `aquatic_udp_load_test`.
Performance was compared to
[opentracker](http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/opentracker/) using
`aquatic_udp_load_test`.
Server responses per second, best result in bold:
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(See `documents/aquatic-load-test-2020-04-19.pdf` for details.)
## aquatic_ws
## aquatic_ws: WebTorrent tracker
Experimental WebTorrent tracker.
Experimental [WebTorrent](https://github.com/webtorrent) tracker, not yet
recommended for production use.
Run `aquatic_ws`:
Default configuration:
```sh
./scripts/run-aquatic-ws.sh
```toml
socket_workers = 1
[network]
address = '127.0.0.1:3000'
use_tls = false
tls_pkcs12_path = ''
tls_pkcs12_password = ''
max_scrape_torrents = 255
max_offers = 10
peer_announce_interval = 120
poll_event_capacity = 4096
poll_timeout_milliseconds = 50
[handlers]
max_requests_per_iter = 10000
channel_recv_timeout_microseconds = 200
[cleaning]
interval = 30
max_peer_age = 180
max_connection_age = 180
[privileges]
drop_privileges = false
chroot_path = '.'
user = 'nobody'
```
## Trivia