How to download DVD images

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Nov 5 11:02:20 UTC 2004


Botond Kardos wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 10:45, Paul Howarth wrote:
>>Botond Kardos wrote:
>>>	can you propose a program to download DVD images with? (FC3 is coming.
>>>:> ) Something which can handle huge files (unlike mget) and can resume
>>>after disconnects (unlike wget)?
>>
>>I would strongly recommend using bittorrent to download the DVD ISO. It's 
>>likely to be faster than a download from a single site, checksums each 1MB 
>>chunk as it downloads it (redownloaing if necessary) and has no problems 
>>resuming a download after a disconnect.
>>
> 
> 
> 	Will bittorrent work behind a firewall and a proxy? The FAQ
> (http://dessent.net/btfaq/) says that "desproxy" can do some tricks for
> me, but it doesn't says how.

Don't know; bittorrent will definitely work from behind a NAT firewall (I've 
used it to download ISOs at work) but using a proxy may be difficult. 
Performance will also be less than optimal if you can't forward incoming 
connections from peers through the firewall to your bittorrent client.

Paul.




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