Re: [tor-relays] Bridge not being used

2017-05-19 Thread Joel Cretan
Thanks, I've seen this come up before but couldn't find a good recent answer. That one helps. The longstanding advice has been to run a relay if you have enough bandwidth, and a bridge if you only have a tiny bit. It seemed to me that larger bridges could help people who need them, but maybe this

[tor-relays] Bridge not being used

2017-05-18 Thread Joel Cretan
Hi relay operators, I've run a number of relays, so I'm familiar with how this usually works for non-bridges. I'm working on a project that might want to connect through a bridge, so I thought I'd fire one of those up to offset the demands I'd be placing on the network. I've been operating this

Re: [tor-relays] Cheapest HW to get 20Mbit?

2016-08-29 Thread Joel Cretan
Having run a relay on an older RPi with standard Raspbian, I would caution you to look carefully at the packages you're using, if you choose that hardware. Of course the Tor package itself is woefully out of date, so you have to build from source. But it's worse than that. I noticed that running

Re: [tor-relays] Handshake flood now on NTor

2014-09-07 Thread Joel Cretan
I observed something similar today. It was basically as you described for the previous cases you observed, where there was a storm of about 10 times more TAP handshakes than usual. My middle relay is pretty small, limited to 1.1Mbit/s, and until this point it wasn't even saturating that. Then this

Re: [tor-relays] Speed of my relay not correct on global list

2014-07-20 Thread Joel Cretan
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 4:30 PM, B00ze/Empire b00z...@hotmail.com wrote: Who cares that MS doesn't support it. So you are claiming that because it runs on Xp the speed testing is failing? I find that hard to believe. Everyone using Tor cares. I believe the other posters are seizing on this

Re: [tor-relays] Circuit purposes

2014-06-28 Thread Joel Cretan
then unusable). Cheers! -Damian On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Joel Cretan jcre...@gmail.com wrote: I'm running a relay that I do not intend to use for anything else, so I set SocksPort to 0. I usually have two or three circuits established anyway, though, so I guess I haven't managed to disable

[tor-relays] Circuit purposes

2014-06-27 Thread Joel Cretan
I'm running a relay that I do not intend to use for anything else, so I set SocksPort to 0. I usually have two or three circuits established anyway, though, so I guess I haven't managed to disable creating those. I'm not sure what they are for. They are always labeled Purpose: