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diff --git a/net/bittorrent/files/BitTorrent.1 b/net/bittorrent/files/BitTorrent.1 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..686552fdc135 --- /dev/null +++ b/net/bittorrent/files/BitTorrent.1 @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +.Dd April 12, 2003 +.Dt BITTORRENT 1 +.Sh NAME +.Nm BitTorrent +.Nd Peer to Peer Distributed download client/server. +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm +.Op Ar args ... +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +client/server may be invoked with the following options: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width indent +.It Fl -max_uploads Ar num +the maximum number of uploads to allow at once. (defaults to 4) +.It Fl -keepalive_interval Ar seconds +number of seconds to pause between sending keepalives (defaults to +120.0) +.It Fl -download_slice_size Ar bytes +How many bytes to query for per request. (defaults to 16384) +.It Fl -request_backlog Ar num +how many requests to keep in a single pipe at once. (defaults to 5) +.It Fl -max_message_length Ar bytes +maximum length prefix encoding you'll accept over the wire - larger +values get the connection dropped. (defaults to 8388608) +.It Fl -ip Ar address +.It Fl i Ar address +IP to report you have to the tracker. (defaults to '') +.It Fl -minport Ar port +minimum port to listen on, counts up if unavailable (defaults to 6881) +.It Fl -maxport Ar port +maximum port to listen on (defaults to 6999) +.It Fl -responsefile Ar filename +file the server response was stored in, alternative +to url (defaults to '') +.It Fl -url Ar filename +url to get file from, alternative to responsefile (defaults to '') +.It Fl -saveas Ar filename +local file name to save the file as, null indicates +query user (defaults to '') +.It Fl -timeout Ar seconds +time to wait between closing sockets which nothing +has been received on (defaults to 300.0) +.It Fl -timeout_check_interval Ar seconds +time to wait between checking if any connections +have timed out (defaults to 60.0) +.It Fl -max_slice_length Ar bytes +maximum length slice to send to peers, larger +requests are ignored (defaults to 131072) +.It Fl -max_rate_period Ar seconds +maximum amount of time to guess the current +rate estimate represents (defaults to 20.0) +.It Fl -bind Ar address +IP to bind to locally (defaults to '') +.It Fl -upload_rate_fudge Ar num +time equivalent of writing to kernel-level TCP buffer, for rate +adjustment (defaults to 5.0) +.It Fl -display_interval Ar seconds +time between updates of displayed information (defaults to 0.5) +.It Fl -rerequest_interval Ar seconds +time to wait between requesting more peers (defaults to 300) +.It Fl -min_peers Ar num +minimum number of peers to not do rerequesting (defaults to 20) +.It Fl -http_timeout Ar seconds +number of seconds to wait before assuming that an http connection has +timed out (defaults to 60) +.It Fl -max_initiate Ar num +number of peers at which to stop initiating new connections (defaults to 40) +.It Fl -check_hashes Ar boolean +whether to check hashes on disk (defaults to 1) +.It Fl -max_upload_rate Ar kB/s +maximum kB/s to upload at, 0 means no limit (defaults to 0) +.It Fl -alloc_pause Ar seconds +seconds to wait before displaying allocation feedback (defaults to 3.0) +.It Fl -snub_time Ar seconds +seconds to wait for data to come in over a connection before assuming +it's semi-permanently choked (defaults to 60.0) +.It Fl -spew Ar boolean +whether to display diagnostic info to stdout (defaults to 0) +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Rs +.%T BitTorrent +.%O "http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/index.html" +.Re +.Sh AUTHORS +.Nm +was written by +.An Bram Cohen Aq bram@bitconjurer.org . |