Connect specified peer only

[oooo-ps]

Can I connect rqbit CLI to specified peer only using single socket connection?

[ikatson]

what do you mean by single socket connection?

you can try

rqbit --disable-dht --disable-trackers download --initial-peers addr:port magnet_or_file

[oooo-ps]

I mean exactly single socket connection (to peer) - already found --peer-limit 1 but how to specify HOST:PORT if I take it manually from tracker? Seems there is no option..

btw, my command looks like this:

rqbit --disable-dht --disable-lsd --peer-limit 1 --ipv4-only --disable-upnp-port-forward --disable-tcp-listen --single-thread-runtime -v trace download TORRENT

[ikatson]

I don't understand

if I take it manually from tracker

the tracker gives you an IP:PORT and rqbit connects to it. If you want to override host:port why use tracker in the first place? Or do you want to use trackers only for announcing, but not for peer lists?

You can manually add peers using --initial-peers addr:port as I suggested above. It will probably try to connect to that one first. But if it disconnects, then other queued peers from the tracker will be next.

[oooo-ps]

My VPN block multiple TCP socket connections. I have an idea to spawn only one socket to peer to cross this restriction manually :)

Thanks for tip - I will try --initial-peers with --peer-limit, DHT/LSD and trackers disabled.

P.S. do you remember my issue where PEX connections disability is not implemented yet, so blacklist is only one option I can block this (excepting firewall rules of course) - would be nice to have the option that entirely drops these peering connections..