On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 13:22 +0100, Runa A. Sandvik wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Rob van der Hoeven > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Hi, > > > Bridges serve as "unknown" entry points to the TOR network. For this, > > part of the TOR network nodes are reserved and unlisted. This is not > > good for the performance of the network, and because the network is > > relatively small i think the unlisted-nodes strategy will only be a > > short term solution. > > Roger wrote a good blog post about strategies for getting more bridge > addresses: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/strategies-getting-more-bridge-addresses > (you may have seen this already, it was written three months ago). >
As a FreedomBox builder i'm very interested in TOR. I am not very up-to-date however, so i have not read this article. > > At the moment i'm working on my own FreedomBox. From this work i got the > > following idea: Why not use the DNAT function of a router to forward TOR > > traffic to a TOR node? This way you don't need unlisted nodes anymore. A > > router-bridge does not have to be a full TOR node.... > > > > Unfortunately the standard DNAT functionality of most routers only > > support DNAT from the internet to internal addresses. So you need > > modified firmware to make this work. Maybe a (slightly modified?) > > version of OpenWRT will work. > > Have you heard about the Torouter project? We are currently working on > two versions; the DreamPlug for technical users who don't mind doing > some hacking on their own, and the Excito B3 for non-tech users. We > have documented the project here: > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/Torouter - Maybe > this is something you'd like to help with? > The beauty of the DNAT solution is that the router does not have to run TOR at all. Much more lightweight. To give you an example: configuring my firewall to do internet-internet DNAT only involved 3 lines in the configuration files (see Shorewall FAQ 1g) Rob. _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
