On Friday 24 July 2009 12:26:39 Scott Bennett wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:18:52 +0100 Bob Williams > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >On Friday 24 July 2009 12:09:48 Bob Williams wrote: > >> On Friday 24 July 2009 11:58:09 DM wrote: > >> > Go to www.whatismyipaddress.com and compare the reported ip address > >> > with your assigned addressed. > >> > >> That shows my correct WAN IP address, as allocated by my ISP. I presume > >> that shows that tor is not working. > > Just a thought...when you look at the bottom of your firefox window, > do you see a small box that says, "Tor Enabled" in green lettering? If it > has red lettering saying, "Tor Disabled", try clicking on it. > Yes, I can turn it green (enabled), but when I do, it warns me "The most recent Tor proxy test failed to use Tor.
Are you sure you want to enable anyway?" > >BTW, when I open the ports in my router do I have to specify the UDP > > protocol as well as TCP? > > If you are running tor only as a client, you should not need to do > anything to your router. If you are running tor also as a relay, then you > do need to set RDR rules for your ORPort and, optionally, DirPort. tor > does not directly provide any sort of UDP service to the outside world, so > no, you needn't worry about doing anything about UDP at all in your router > for tor operation. > Thanks, that's good to know. My intention in installing Tor/Privoxy is ultimately to provide a relay, rather than anonymising my own activity, though that might be interesting. ATM I am trying to get it working properly as a client, before exploring the wonders of relays ;) -- Bob
