[tor-relays] Choosing to run vanilla or obfuscated bridge

2014-10-29 Thread eliaz
I know that vanilla bridges cannot carry obfsproxy traffic. But can obfsproxied bridges carry vanilla traffic? If not, are there criteria to help me decide which bridge configuration is useful at any particular time? - eliaz ___ tor-relays mailing list

[tor-relays] exit relay not utilising full capacity (even after months)

2014-10-29 Thread Rejo Zenger
Hi, I am running an exit-relay and noticed a couple of odd things: 1. Last months, the node seems to be slow in using the full capacity. - Back in April, I changed the relay's configuration to allow the relay to use all the bandwidth it could take. As a result, within a week or two

Re: [tor-relays] exit relay not utilising full capacity (even after months)

2014-10-29 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2014-10-29 09:41, Rejo Zenger wrote: [..] - So, the question is: why is it so much slower maximising the full bandwidth? The configuration from mid-July onwards is identical to the one in April. The only thing that has changed is in mid-August, when I moved to relay into a LXC

[tor-relays] minimal specifications for a non-exit relay?

2014-10-29 Thread René Ladan
Hi, I was running a non-exit relay from my 50/5 Mb/s (more like 35/4 in practice) home connection on a Raspberry Pi B (496 MB RAM, 700 MHz) running FreeBSD using the following configuration: Tor 0.2.4.24 % cat /usr/local/etc/tor/torrc SocksPort 0 Log notice file /var/log/tor ORPort 9001 ORPort

Re: [tor-relays] exit relay not utilising full capacity (even after months)

2014-10-29 Thread Rejo Zenger
++ 29/10/14 10:15 +0100 - Jeroen Massar: There are some weird properties in trying to do full-bandwidth. Deterministic it for sure is not. The IP is not mentioned in atlas: https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/94.142.240.243 Nope. That is the IP-address of the switch in front of the node. The

Re: [tor-relays] How many IOERRORs are common ?

2014-10-29 Thread Toralf Förster
On 10/28/2014 08:56 PM, Mike Patton wrote: My exit isn't the size of yours but at times has supported quite a bit of traffic and I haven't ever seen one of these errors. Well, I'm running 0.2.5.10 at a 64 bit Gentoo hardened Linux in the meanwhile - unfortunately I did not looked before at

Re: [tor-relays] How many IOERRORs are common ?

2014-10-29 Thread Toralf Förster
On 10/29/2014 05:09 PM, eric gisse wrote: I have never seen such errors and I'm running on 64 bit gentoo hardened as well. Are you running with special debug options or something? No, I just switched from an amd64 Gentoo to a hardened by switching the Gentoo profile and compiling current

Re: [tor-relays] exit node experience: abuse over HTTP, stealrat infection

2014-10-29 Thread elrippo
On Freitag, 24. Oktober 2014, 09:16:49 Tom van der Woerdt wrote: Manuel Gebauer schreef op 19/10/14 15:29: Hi, Tom and Rejo. Same with me. Half of the abuse complaints I get are from Valuehost Ru. Because I run on a cheap VPS I don't get a reassigned IP. Therefore I always fear that my

Re: [tor-relays] Choosing to run vanilla or obfuscated bridge

2014-10-29 Thread Andreas Reich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hey, as far as i know a bridge can carry both, normal vanilla traffic and obfsproxied traffic. you specify your normal ORPort to listen e.g. on port 443 and specify a different port for obfsproxy traffic. if you specify your obfsproxy as

Re: [tor-relays] Choosing to run vanilla or obfuscated bridge

2014-10-29 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 08:20:15AM +, eliaz wrote: I know that vanilla bridges cannot carry obfsproxy traffic. But can obfsproxied bridges carry vanilla traffic? If not, are there criteria to help me decide which bridge configuration is useful at any particular time? - eliaz Hi eliaz, As