Can it be used in a private local area network ?

[amarcul]

Can It be used in local area personal network that has no internet access , just used to share data ?

[astro]

Please have a look at Zeroconf Peer Advertising and Discovery and also Local Service Discovery. Private Torrents should also be of interest in order to avoid leaking data while connected to the Internet.

[feross]

Yes, you can use WebTorrent on a private network. But, you'll want to ensure that you do one of the following:

1. Run a local tracker server for finding peers

• Run your own tracker instance with bittorrent-tracker
• When starting up the tracker, you can decide to enable each type of tracker: UDP, HTTP, WS. I recommend enabling them all.
• Pass in the URL of your tracker via the { announce: [ 'http://host:port', 'udp://host:port', 'ws://host:port' ] } option to client.add()

2. Rely on a local-only DHT for finding peers.

• Run your own DHT bootstrap server instance with bittorrent-dht
• Pass in the URL of your DHT bootstrap server via the { dht: { bootstrap: 'host:port' } } option to the WebTorrent constructor

3. Tracker + DHT

• Do both (1) and (2) together.

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