Hi,

Within Tixati it is currently possible to choose a network interface :

Tixati Settings>Network>Connections>Local IPv4 address or interface
Tixati Settings>Network>Connections>Local IPv6 address or interface

This option is very useful in the event of disconnection of an VPN...

To extend the possibilities, would it be possible to maintain the choice of network interfaces,
and include an additional option for choice :

-a network interface specific to download traffic.
-a network interface specific to upload traffic.

The idea is well to split the download with a network interface and the upload with a another interface :

Tixati Settings>Network>Connections>Local IPv4 address or interface for traffic download
Tixati Settings>Network>Connections>Local IPv4 address or interface for traffic upload

Tixati Settings>Network>Connections>Local IPv6 address or interface for traffic download
Tixati Settings>Network>Connections>Local IPv6 address or interface for traffic upload

The IP addresses are (optionally) therefore separate.

Feel free to say what you think, but it seems to me that the option can be really interesting in terms of efficiency and in the face of certain threats or locks...

Thanks for Tixati !

I suppose that you understand that a torrent client that doesn't upload or download still exchanges protocol messages with peers, and announces torrent state to them. It is thus impossible to have strictly one way traffic flow. And two peers with matching block distribution can easily be marked as belonging to a single entity. Sometimes I spot people who use both local and VPN address among active peers.

What you've described can be (and probably should be) implemented with two torrent clients, one with strictly limited upload speed, having each other as local peers. One downloads via first network interface to a temporary location, copies torrent file to a shared catalogue on download completion, removes torrent. Second one imports torrent and its data automatically, and seeds via second interface. User uses the second client to move the data to final location when it's convenient.

Limited upload also means that peers will prefer other leechers if they are present, and your downloads can be slow.