My apologies - I wasn't aware of the 2 relays per IP restriction. Is it for security reasons?
On 1 Jul 2014, at 23:48 , Roman Mamedov <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 22:36:10 +1000 > Tim <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Tom, >> >> Why not run multiple tor relays on different ports on the same IPv4 address? >> >> For example, you could run 6 relays on 6 different ports on your IPv4 >> address (6 x 180 Mpbs > 1 Gbps). >> >> This would also utilise your 4 cores much more efficiently than running 2 >> relays (each relay will only ever use 1 core for most operations). > > Because more than two relays per IPv4 address is ignored by the network; and > that was the whole point of the question. > > I suggested some time ago that with the scarcity of IPv4 *and* abundance of > multi-core CPUs that the Tor developers should really consider raising the > relays-per-IP limit from 2 to at least 3 or 4. > > Sure one can use IPv6, but I doubt there's any serious amounts of traffic on > IPv6 via Tor, so it will not help with the original request to do something > which would help better utilize the full available bandwidth. > > -- > With respect, > Roman _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
