[tor-relays] Relay with VPN

2018-11-27 Thread deadcow
Hi everyone, first time ever using mailing lists. Please let me know if something I'm doing wrong.  I'd like to run a middle relay.  I'm using Linux mint 19 The question. Can i set up relay through VPN? (nordvpn)  Or if i want relay i have to stop using vpn?   Thank you for help --- Google, Fa

Re: [tor-relays] Relay with VPN

2018-11-27 Thread Mirimir
On 11/27/2018 02:18 PM, dead...@tuta.io wrote: > Hi everyone, first time ever using mailing lists. Please let me know if > something I'm doing wrong.  > > I'd like to run a middle relay.  > I'm using Linux mint 19 > > The question. Can i set up relay through VPN? (nordvpn)  > Or if i want relay

Re: [tor-relays] Relay with VPN

2018-11-28 Thread s7r
11:18 PM, dead...@tuta.io wrote: > Hi everyone, first time ever using mailing lists. Please let me know if > something I'm doing wrong.  > > I'd like to run a middle relay.  > I'm using Linux mint 19 > > The question. Can i set up relay through VPN? (nordvpn)  > Or if i want relay i have to stop

Re: [tor-relays] Relay with VPN

2018-11-28 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 02:23:38PM +0200, s7r wrote: > as well as disadvantages: > > - you will have higher latency; > - the bandwidth of your relay will be of the speed of the VPN itself, > and shared VPN usually are slow for high grade server connections that > run 24x7 with constant bandwidth u

Re: [tor-relays] Relay with VPN

2018-11-28 Thread teor
Hi, Just one clarification: > On 28 Nov 2018, at 22:23, s7r wrote: > > You say you want to run a middle relay, why do you want to run it behind > a VPN in this case? Middle relays get no abuse complaints or anything as > they can not be used as exit points. Occasionally, clients will ask middl

Re: [tor-relays] Relay with VPN

2018-11-29 Thread deadcow
- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 14:23:38 +0200 > From: s7r <> s...@sky-ip.org <mailto:s...@sky-ip.org>> > > To: > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org <mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org> > Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Rel

Re: [tor-relays] Relay with VPN

2018-11-29 Thread Mirimir
On 11/29/2018 03:24 PM, dead...@tuta.io wrote: > I am using VPN all the time and I wanted to try run relay what > you say make sense, so for the time I try, i'll disconnect VPN. As I said, it's not that hard to create an exception in the VPN client for Tor. So that it connects directly, but