Best setup for Private tracker

p4981475p4981475
edited April 2014 in P2P Support
I'm a member of a private tracker and would like to have the VPN work for everything but torrents from this tracker. What PIA option would you recommend I use?

I'm using a Windows 8 PC with Utorrent.

Thanks

Comments

  • VPNVPN
    I don't know of any software that could accomplish this on the fly. It would need serious DPI capabilities for torrent traffic.
    The probably easiest way to do it would be a virtualized environment, maybe together with some advanced routing. It's outside the scope of a simple forum aside from giving a few keywords to help you start your search.
  • p4981475p4981475
    Maybe you misunderstood me, I'm just downloading torrents not running the site.
  • OmniNegroOmniNegro
    Maybe you misunderstood me, I'm just downloading torrents not running the site.
    He meant that you cannot easily make exclusions to routing for a specific thing. (The tracker in this case.) He then told you that using a virtualized environment would allow you to not have routing going through the VPN for that.
  • VPNVPN
    Yeah, what Omni said.

    The thing is, how would your system know which torrent connections belonged to which torrent? The routing table has no place for high level protocol stuff. The torrent client isn't complex enough to achieve this. I know of no other software that would work for torrents (HTTP proxies* should be available, but I haven't checked).

    Policy routing could perhaps accomplish this, given the right circumstances, but while it is certainly less complex than virtualization, it's usually a lot harder for the average user to understand, and also not available on Windows (as far as I know).


    *for HTTP requests only. Tunneling torrents through an HTTP proxy is possible, but it's not HTTP traffic.

    If I can explain more, I certainly will. Let me know what your questions are.
  • OmniNegroOmniNegro
    edited April 2014
    You can install  VirtualBox, and then install a guest OS of your choice along with a torrent client of your choice and have that work with or without the VPN to your choice. If you want everything but the private tracker to go through the VPN, then you should probably run all but that in the VirtualBox guest OS along with the VPN so that your default Internet connection in your host OS is not going through the VPN.

    There may be ways to do exactly the opposite, and this may be a better fit for you, but I have no idea how to do it. This is the easy option that will do what you want.

    *Edit* Here is a link to the VirtualBox forums. There are how-to guides there as well. And plenty of people willing and able to help you in this. Good luck with it. Please do not hesitate to ask any questions that come to mind.
  • p4981475p4981475
    OK I can do the Virtualbox idea. So correct me if I'm wrong.. Run private tracker on my main OS with no VPN. Then put second OS in Virtualbox and VPN that OS on public torrents?

    Thanks for the tips guys.
  • OmniNegroOmniNegro
    You are most welcome. And I think you have it all figured out. Enjoy!
  • nmrmannmrman
    @p4981475: Please do report back how and if it worked.  It will help others in the future.  
  • bjd223bjd223
    Have you tried binding your client to the non VPN interface? Most people do the opposite and bind the VPN interface to the app.

    Not sure if this will work, but its worth a shot. qBittorrent is a decent app that can be bound to a specific interface.

    Depending on how your routes are setup binding to the physical Nic may still go over the VPN, or it might not work at all.
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