ban...@openmailbox.org writes: > On 2016-12-18 23:32, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >> ban...@openmailbox.org writes: >> >>> In principle the F2F way seems closest to what we need. Though it has >>> the downsides of limited performance and probably complicated to >>> automate since a noderef needs to be exchanged out of band first. >> >> If that’s what you want to go for and you want to increase performance >> with the currently available tools (no changes needed, so nothing >> blocks >> doing this today), you could run multiple low-bandwidth nodes on the >> gateway and configure them to connect to the node on the client. At 5 >> friend-to-friend connections Freenet pure friend-to-friend performance >> starts to get pretty good. > > I dunno. While I can understand the less than optimal performance of > this workaround, first-time users might be put off. So I want to do this > when I am confident that users will have the best experience possible.
With multiple nodes running on the gateway, the performance should be good enough for tasks which are similar in their requirements to regular browsing. >> The configuration can be done via pyFreenet. See our update over >> mandatory test script for an example of connecting two nodes: >> https://github.com/freenet/scripts/blob/b56225bedcc646a8ba88f04862e89f15e246d4b8/test-autoupgrade#L150 >> >> I’m running such a setup myself to have a pure darknet node (to dogfod >> with how Freenet works for users who disable opennet for security >> reasons) which still gets pretty good performance if most friends are >> offline. >> >>> I'm thinking some of Freenet supporting an explicit 'proxy mode' where >>> it would provide a SOCKS interface for Freenet on the workstation to >>> use for outbound connections. >> >> Isn’t that what happens with SSH port-forwarding? What am I missing? > > Also we can't have SSH or any other helper daemons running on the > Gateway by any means. We don't even have DHCP servers or clients on > there and rightly so - made us immune to some RCEs. What I mean is: Would a SOCKS interface not just provide the same as SSH forwarding? Best wishes, Arne -- Unpolitisch sein heißt politisch sein ohne es zu merken
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