Linksys routers in relation to Tor (Was: Re: Best Hardware for TOR server..)

2007-12-14 Thread F. Fox
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Holstein wrote: (snip) > Yeah, but the "standard" store-bought WRT54G (ver 6) is only 8mb. (snip) v5+ sucks! I was actually talking with a friend the other day about the issue... and we agreed that we'd rather buy a v4 or lower used, than to b

Re: Best Hardware for TOR server..

2007-12-14 Thread F. Fox
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Holstein wrote: (snip) >> all behind a Linksys Firewall Router. > > This will be a problem. Cheap-o routers don't have enough memory to > manage huge state tables. You'd be better off getting a second NIC card > for the PC and just using the

Re: Best Hardware for TOR server..

2007-12-14 Thread F. Fox
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Bennett wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:31:43 +0100 Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:44:17PM -0800, algenon flower wrote: >> (snip) >> >>>behind a Linksys Firewall Router. >> Make sure this is not y

Re: Best Hardware for TOR server..

2007-12-14 Thread F. Fox
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 algenon flower wrote: > Hello TOR developers, experienced users > I am planning on getting my TOR server up again using new hardware. If > any of these things won't work well with a TOR server, plz let me know. > Because of difficulty in the past w

Re: Best Hardware for TOR server..

2007-12-14 Thread phobos
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 10:37:48AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 0.9K bytes in 27 lines about: : I've been running a server (phrenograph) on a Comcast connection in : the Washington, DC, area for a few months now, and I haven't heard : anything from Comcast about it. Right. They most likely

Re: Best Hardware for TOR server..

2007-12-14 Thread Michael Holstein
Are you sure OpenWRT on a Linksys can't handle the states with 32 MBytes RAM, and a 0.2..0.5 MBit/s upstream? Yeah, but the "standard" store-bought WRT54G (ver 6) is only 8mb. Linksys uses Linux (Vxworks for its more braindead types of routers which I know nothing about), but the default

Re: Best Hardware for TOR server..

2007-12-14 Thread Scott Bennett
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:20:17 +0100 Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 09:34:36AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: > >> Thank you. You just brought forward the thing that has been eluding >> my recollection since this thread started. Linksys routers do not have >>

Re: Best Hardware for TOR server..

2007-12-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 09:34:36AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: > Thank you. You just brought forward the thing that has been eluding > my recollection since this thread started. Linksys routers do not have > enough memory for the NAT table to run a tor exit server, and they do not Are you

Re: Best Hardware for TOR server..

2007-12-14 Thread Michael Holstein
I've been running a server (phrenograph) on a Comcast connection in the Washington, DC, area for a few months now, and I haven't heard anything from Comcast about it. I guess I should have been more clear .. I ran the tor node on an academic network, and we have our own ASN, so there's no

Re: Best Hardware for TOR server..

2007-12-14 Thread Scott Bennett
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:37:48 -0500 Jay Goodman Tamboli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Dec 14, 2007, at 10:09:28, Michael Holstein wrote: > >>> all behind a Linksys Firewall Router. >> >> This will be a problem. Cheap-o routers don't have enough memory to >> manage huge state tables. > >I ha

Re: Best Hardware for TOR server..

2007-12-14 Thread Jay Goodman Tamboli
On Dec 14, 2007, at 10:09:28, Michael Holstein wrote: all behind a Linksys Firewall Router. This will be a problem. Cheap-o routers don't have enough memory to manage huge state tables. I haven't noticed any such problems with an Apple Airport Extreme router. My service provider wil

Re: Best Hardware for TOR server..

2007-12-14 Thread Scott Bennett
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:09:28 -0500 Michael Holstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> P4 processor @ 3GHZ, Intel MB, 2GB DDR2 RAM, 80 GB SATA HD > >This will be fine (more than fine, actually) .. I had no issues running >a ~10mbit (symmetric) node on an old P3/1ghz with 1gb RAM (it was FreeBSD).

Re: Best Hardware for TOR server..

2007-12-14 Thread Michael Holstein
P4 processor @ 3GHZ, Intel MB, 2GB DDR2 RAM, 80 GB SATA HD This will be fine (more than fine, actually) .. I had no issues running a ~10mbit (symmetric) node on an old P3/1ghz with 1gb RAM (it was FreeBSD). all behind a Linksys Firewall Router. This will be a problem. Cheap-o routers d

Re: Best Hardware for TOR server..

2007-12-13 Thread phobos
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:44:17PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 2.8K bytes in 29 lines about: : P4 processor @ 3GHZ, Intel MB, 2GB DDR2 RAM, 80 GB SATA HD, all behind a Linksys Firewall Router. In my practical experience, amd athlon64/opterons seem to handle tor with far less percent cpu tha

Re: Best Hardware for TOR server..

2007-12-13 Thread Kasimir Gabert
On Dec 13, 2007 9:33 AM, Scott Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:38:02 -0800 (PST) "Eric H. Jung" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >--- Scott Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> The providers in the U.S. are not at the forefront, obviously. Unlike > >> F

Re: Best Hardware for TOR server..

2007-12-13 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:38:02 -0800 (PST) "Eric H. Jung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >--- Scott Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The providers in the U.S. are not at the forefront, obviously. Unlike >> France, Japan, etc., an intermediate-speed, asymmetric model is used for >> resid

Re: Best Hardware for TOR server..

2007-12-13 Thread Eric H. Jung
--- Scott Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The providers in the U.S. are not at the forefront, obviously. Unlike > France, Japan, etc., an intermediate-speed, asymmetric model is used for > residential service in the U.S. If you have, say, $1200/month to blow, you > can get a T3 line a

Re: Best Hardware for TOR server..

2007-12-13 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:31:43 +0100 Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:44:17PM -0800, algenon flower wrote: > >> Because of difficulty in the past when I was using minimum hardware >>specs, I now will be setting up my TOR server on a dedicated machine >

Re: Best Hardware for TOR server..

2007-12-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:44:17PM -0800, algenon flower wrote: > Because of difficulty in the past when I was using minimum hardware >specs, I now will be setting up my TOR server on a dedicated machine >with this physical architecture: > P4 processor @ 3GHZ, Intel MB, 2GB DDR2

Best Hardware for TOR server..

2007-12-12 Thread algenon flower
Hello TOR developers, experienced users I am planning on getting my TOR server up again using new hardware. If any of these things won't work well with a TOR server, plz let me know. Because of difficulty in the past when I was using minimum hardware specs, I now will be setting up my TOR s