Looking to set up a tracker for a personal experiment

[kostya]

I am planning to do some performance analysis of several file transfer protocols, among which is BitTorrent. I am looking to set up a tracker on one of my machines to use for it. Has anyone here ever set up their own tracker? Know of any software that is particularly easy to use and configure? I am not looking to have much on it, maybe a could dozen files being downloaded by 2 machines.

Also, does anyone know of a Linux Bit Torrent client which can be run from the command line and set up to stop once the file is done downloading (i.e. not switch to seeding)?

[vuzedome]

Gazelle.

[Lupin]

uTorrent can act as a tracker.

[kostya]

By the look of it, Gazelle is yet to be released, though they do have the code on SVN. I guess it is worth a try.

About uTorrent, I suspect that it has a dependency of X Windows. I do not plan on bothering to set up X on the machines.

[Lupin]

Gazelle is being used by this very site.