On Mon, October 20, 2008 14:35, Erilenz wrote: > I get better performance by installing Tor on each of them, or by having > a single machine with Tor on and then pointing the web browsers on > each of them at the proxy on that box? https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#CentralAccessServer It all boils down to the point on how much you trust your users ;-) You can even have some fun trying to set up a transparent proxy on your gateway (be warned that's not too nice if your users will discover you'll end up routing all their traffic via tor, without a warning)
> I'm guessing that it would be obvious because of the increase in the > number of directory requests? Good point. If you need to run Tor on several of your machine, using a central server would be the best option. Also, see https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#RelayAnonymity for a similar issue. > If I were to install it on just one box and then point all the other > boxes at it, wouldn't I end up putting all the traffic through a > smaller number of circuits and thus having a slower network? I bounce the question to a devel or an expert, IIRC Tor should build up circuits as the load increase, but take the tip with care ;-) ciao -- Marco Bonetti BT3 EeePC enhancing module: http://sid77.slackware.it/bt3/ Slackintosh Linux Project Developer: http://workaround.ch/ Linux-live for powerpc: http://workaround.ch/pub/rsync/mb/linux-live/ My webstuff: http://sidbox.homelinux.org/ My GnuPG key id: 0x86A91047
