On 26 July 2015 at 22:42, Yawning Angel <yawn...@schwanenlied.me> wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 22:32:18 +0100 > Pascal Terjan <pter...@gmail.com> wrote: > [snip] >> > I question the usefulness of most of the relays running on >> > residential lines in the first place for other reasons (Eg: most >> > consumer routers are crap, and will probably not be able to >> > simultaneously maintain a connection to every single other relay + >> > bridge, which is rather unhealthy to the network overall. Being >> > able to measure this and delist/reduce consensus weight here would >> > be good as well.). >> >> It seems my relay at home is doing quite well (but my IP even if not >> static has never changed so far so it's not very relevant to the >> discussion). >> It currently has 5763 open tcp connections in the tor container, 3116 >> are to my port 9001 (mix of guard and other relays I believe) and I >> guess the 2647 others are outgoing to other relays. >> >> It seems the router is a >> http://enterprise.zte.com.cn/en/products/network_lnfrastructure/cpe/broadband/201404/t20140418_422573.html >> rebranded by my ISP and it has no problem with that amount of NAT. > > Grats, you have a semi-useful router. Do you want a cookie? > > Anecdotal evidence that things appear to be working fine isn't all that > helpful here. Basically, there should be code to deal with relays > running behind things on lists like this: > > https://wiki.vuze.com/w/Bad_routers#Due_to_.28too.29_many_connections
Wow that list is impressive, some of them can't handle 110 connections?! That would indeed be very bad to use such a router, but I guess people would notice that they can't use their connection for anything as soon as they start a relay and would give up > So they don't do horrible things to the network. If your router is > working, then great, it meets what should be a minimum standard of > usefulness. > _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays