On Tuesday, 22 August 2006 at 14:44:04 -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: > >1. What is involved in installing Tor - any special proceedures or any > >gotchas? > > gethostbyname_r(), which OpenBSD doesn't even have.
I got Tor compiled and ran OK on OBSD-3.8 without any changes. Here are what I did: - download the latest port from the the latest snapshot. Note this is not official supported because the snapshot is not for OBSD-3.8. - move the port tor to /usr/ports/net/ - make; make install. I even modified the Makefile to install the the latest tor via port. Again, this is not "official supported". > >2. Does it have any effect on overall performance? > > Yes. It redirects traffic bouncing it all over the internet. It is slower. I use only ftp, ssh and http(s). > >3. Is my understanding of the function of Tor accurate and will it > >actually anonymize all machines behind the firewall? Would this extend > >to blocking IP addresses, or does it merely mangle the packet headers? > > No, not entirely. They make this quite clear at http://tor.eff.org I installed tor on a firewall (OBSD-3.8) so all my boxes behind the firewall are anonymized. I don't think it has any effect on PF. HTH, Zoong
