Am 18.01.2016 um 00:10 schrieb Christian Stöveken: > The question was whether the tor project would be interested in gaining > these > new users or not and also about the impact of an increase e.g. 1000 or more > of these > boxes (users) would have on the tor network.
A few points come to mind: - AFAIK it's true, the more boxes there are, the safer the network is. - Typical ISP plans have ridiculously low upstream rates, at least here in Germany. For example a popular DSL contract is 16 Mbit downstream, but only 1 Mbit upstream. To operate a relay or gateway the lower of both numbers matters, so one can offer only one Mbit. - The Tor network carries data about all network connected relays and gateways around, so the more boxes there are, the bigger this chunk gets. At some point such boxes (their upload bandwidth) are exhausted with just this maintenance stuff. Not sure where this point is, also found no related investigations. - Why do you see a need for dedicated hardware? An off the shelf router running OpenWRT works just fine. Install the tor package, edit torrc and it works. I run such a thing (TP-Link WDR3600) and have no reason to think hardware couldn't keep up with the required computing. Caveat: I'm not aware of a tool to test computing demands either, I just see free RAM, free 'disk' and only 5% load. - One thing is indeed missing: up to date Tor packages for OpenWRT. Their current stable release comes with Tor 0.2.5.12, several versions behind what the Tor project offers. In case you want to have a look (my plan is 20/1 Mbit cable): https://globe.torproject.org/#/relay/C1B80BA2D97C33851DE08FD061F531A129705988 Did an upgrade on Jan 4th and forgot to backup the keys, so data currently goes only 2 weeks back. Graphs weren't much better with the previous keys, over a whole year only 2 or 3 days actually forwarding some TCP packages. Markus -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. (FH) Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
