Tor will use many unblocked ports for outbound traffic I'm guessing. I think that dd-wrt will open any port that Tor requests if you use port triggering.
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Daniel Wu <[email protected]> wrote: > I just started a relay (non-exit node, not running a client myself), on > Windows, using the latest Vidalia Relay Bundle. Looks like from the > configuration, given that I'm running in relay mode, there should be only > two ports used by Tor (OrPort and DirPort), right? However, when I run > "netstat -ano", I see that the Tor process is using up a lot more ports. > > There are these connections, from 127.0.0.1 back to itself. Some sort of > internal process used by Tor? Not as concerned about these, since these > are internal. But still curious. > > TCP 127.0.0.1:63417 127.0.0.1:63418 ESTABLISHED > TCP 127.0.0.1:63418 127.0.0.1:63417 ESTABLISHED > TCP 127.0.0.1:63419 127.0.0.1:63420 ESTABLISHED > > But then I see connections like these: > TCP 192.168.1.202:55049 174.136.105.86:9001 ESTABLISHED > TCP 192.168.1.202:56804 37.128.208.46:9002 ESTABLISHED > TCP 192.168.1.202:56896 171.25.193.9:80 ESTABLISHED > TCP 192.168.1.202:57113 109.232.224.74:9001 ESTABLISHED > TCP 192.168.1.202:57206 91.227.249.44:9001 ESTABLISHED > TCP 192.168.1.202:57221 67.164.46.197:9001 ESTABLISHED > TCP 192.168.1.202:57253 128.31.0.34:9101 ESTABLISHED > TCP 192.168.1.202:57259 204.124.83.132:587 ESTABLISHED > TCP 192.168.1.202:57260 128.232.18.57:9001 ESTABLISHED > TCP 192.168.1.202:57309 204.124.83.131:443 ESTABLISHED > TCP 192.168.1.202:57331 81.24.98.236:9001 ESTABLISHED > > These appear to be the actual Tor relay traffic (192.168.1.202 is my > computer). Why are these using ports in the 55000+ range, when I specified > my OrPort to be a singular value (in my case, 9031)? I would like to know > the port ranges used by Tor for relay traffic, so I can use my dd-wrt to > set the QoS by specifying these Tor port ranges. > > Thanks, > > DW > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > >
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