On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:44:17PM -0800, algenon flower wrote: > Because of difficulty in the past when I was using minimum hardware > specs, I now will be setting up my TOR server on a dedicated machine > with this physical architecture: > P4 processor @ 3GHZ, Intel MB, 2GB DDR2 RAM, 80 GB SATA HD, all
That's a bit of an overkill for a dedicated machine, unless you want to serve multiple MBytes/s. The system could easily double as a home fileserver, etc. > behind a Linksys Firewall Router. Make sure this is not your weak spot. OpenWRT is a good firmware here. In general, it is always a good idea to buy a WRAP or ALIX (or its Soekris equivalent) piece of kit, and flash it with a decent firewall, like m0n0wall or pfSense. > My service provider will most likely be Comcast cable broadband. How much upstream do US cable modem providers offer? My provider so far has stepped up to 2/30 MBit. They do up to 100 MBit/s in France (upstream unknown). > **Comcast always adds their own modem, I am wondering if the usual > modems they provide will be adequate for use with a TOR server.** > My main question here is whether or not Comcast's modem will work > well with a TOR server, or, if I need to upgrade *that too*... If > anyone knows if there is something wrong here, or something I > seriously need to improve upon, please reply. > The whole thing will be on RedHat Enterprise Linux. I personally find Debian apt-get upgrade type of system installs preferrable, especially for headless machines/from distance. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
