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.
