Re: [tor-dev] running a BWauth

2015-11-04 Thread starlight . 2015q3
Thanks to all for the feedback.

That Torflow works from links slower than those of the fastest relays seems to 
indicate it's measuring relative path resistance as much or more than absolute 
bandwidth.  I often see it produce sensible results and hope that some tuning 
and fixing might produce better consistency and faster scans.

Probably can't start until January, but I intend to proceed.

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Re: [tor-dev] running a BWauth

2015-11-04 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 09:32:26PM -0800, Jesse V wrote:
> Yep, I've run Mike Perry's code before. It's all in torflow. I was also on a 
> 1 gbits link, but as I recall it wasn't that saturated so you might be able 
> to get away with a 500 mbits.

I've been running it on a 100mbit link, and it seems to do ok. It
doesn't use that much transit total. It's possible that it's hitting
the 100mbit limit at times, but hey, my bwauth numbers don't seem any
crazier than the numbers from the other bwauths. :)

--Roger

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Re: [tor-dev] running a BWauth

2015-11-03 Thread Jesse V
Yep, I've run Mike Perry's code before. It's all in torflow. I was also on a 1 
gbits link, but as I recall it wasn't that saturated so you might be able to 
get away with a 500 mbits.

I last ran his scripts back in July, and the logs and other saved data consumed 
all remaining disk space. I don't know if I missed a cleanup step somewhere or 
if the issue was fixed since then, but it's something to be aware of.

-- Jesse V.

On 11/03/2015 07:29 PM, Tom Ritter wrote:
> A 10GB network connection is not a requirement, 1GB would be fine,
> 500MB would also be fine. Mine is 4 core,  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5606
> @ 2.13GHz w/ 8GB of RAM.
>
> Everything is in torflow, I'm not aware of any other code.
>
> -tom
>
> On 2 November 2015 at 17:26,   wrote:
>> I am considering starting up a passive
>> BWauth in order to understand how they
>> work and fix bugs.
>>
>> What is the minimum and ideal hardware
>> configuration for a BWauth?
>>
>> Have my eye on an OVH config with
>> unmetered 1G, a fuzzy promise
>> of 500mbps minimum bandwidth and
>> a 3.4GHz 4core/8thread AES-NI CPU:
>>   http://ark.intel.com/products/80910
>>
>> The server could be turned up in any of
>> their facilities:
>>   https://www.ovh.com/us/about-us/datacenters.xml
>>
>> Or is 10G a requirement?  (out of my league)
>>
>> Is all code here
>>
>>https://gitweb.torproject.org/torflow.git/tree/NetworkScanners/BwAuthority
>>
>> or is there more?  Are uncommitted
>> fixes lying around anywhere?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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Re: [tor-dev] running a BWauth

2015-11-03 Thread Tom Ritter
A 10GB network connection is not a requirement, 1GB would be fine,
500MB would also be fine. Mine is 4 core,  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5606
@ 2.13GHz w/ 8GB of RAM.

Everything is in torflow, I'm not aware of any other code.

-tom

On 2 November 2015 at 17:26,   wrote:
> I am considering starting up a passive
> BWauth in order to understand how they
> work and fix bugs.
>
> What is the minimum and ideal hardware
> configuration for a BWauth?
>
> Have my eye on an OVH config with
> unmetered 1G, a fuzzy promise
> of 500mbps minimum bandwidth and
> a 3.4GHz 4core/8thread AES-NI CPU:
>   http://ark.intel.com/products/80910
>
> The server could be turned up in any of
> their facilities:
>   https://www.ovh.com/us/about-us/datacenters.xml
>
> Or is 10G a requirement?  (out of my league)
>
> Is all code here
>
>https://gitweb.torproject.org/torflow.git/tree/NetworkScanners/BwAuthority
>
> or is there more?  Are uncommitted
> fixes lying around anywhere?
>
> Thanks
>
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[tor-dev] running a BWauth

2015-11-02 Thread starlight . 2015q3
I am considering starting up a passive
BWauth in order to understand how they
work and fix bugs.

What is the minimum and ideal hardware
configuration for a BWauth?

Have my eye on an OVH config with
unmetered 1G, a fuzzy promise
of 500mbps minimum bandwidth and
a 3.4GHz 4core/8thread AES-NI CPU:
  http://ark.intel.com/products/80910

The server could be turned up in any of
their facilities:
  https://www.ovh.com/us/about-us/datacenters.xml

Or is 10G a requirement?  (out of my league)

Is all code here

   https://gitweb.torproject.org/torflow.git/tree/NetworkScanners/BwAuthority

or is there more?  Are uncommitted
fixes lying around anywhere?

Thanks

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