I think is clear. Tell me if the following is right to see if I've understood you.
If I just use RelayBandwidthRate, will the client use as much bandwidth as it needs? (with the default value limit of 5 MB) Regards. On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Sebastian Hahn <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Jul 7, 2011, at 1:48 AM, Tomas Sironi wrote: > > Hi people. In the Tor manual, the next options are specified: > > Hi Tomas, > > thanks for running a relay! > > > - BandwidthRate > > - RelayBandwidthRate > > > > However i don't get to see the difference between those two. I imagined > the first one is the bandwidth of tor being a client, and the second for the > relay (server). But then i read this in the BandwidthRate description, > breaking my previous supposition: > > > > ... If you want to run a relay in the public network, this needs to be at > the very least 20 KB ... > > > > I know those options limit the bandwidth but i don't know exactly which > affects what. > > The idea here is that BandwidthRate sets the limit of > relay + client traffic (and many people only set > BandwidthRate and leave RelayBandwidthRate alone, > and that's fine). But if you also use Tor as a client then > the relay will take up so much bandwidth that the client > has no bandwidth left over, so you have set a lower > RelayBandwidthRate so that there is some spare > bandwidth left over for client usage. > > > I'm running my Tor as client and relay, so i'm a little bit confused. > > > > Can anyone explain that for me? Thanks! > > I hope this clears it up? If not, don't hesitate to > ask further. > > Sebastian > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > -- Tomas Sironi
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