Hi, > Every time the IP changes - or the relay even goes down and up (instead > of doing a -SIGHUP) - it breaks all the circuits running through your node.
i've been killing the tor server via torctl stop before my disconnects and restarting via torctl start (i also restarted squid and privoxy). Now i'm using killall -s HUP tor and the traffic increases faster after an ip change. So there should be no problem. Greets