Adafruit’s Onion Pi is a Tor proxy for your home network, *not* a relay.
Jeff p.s. Instructables has relay setup instructions though, which someone could comment on, but the wolrd has a lot more Android machines that Raspberry Pis, and they’ve much less bandwidth. On 12 Oct 2014, at 19:53, I <beatthebasta...@inbox.com> wrote: > Isis, > > Why, then, has there been discussion of the use of Raspberry Pis without > mention of this? > What is the minimum and best low power single board computer that would not > be detrimental to TOR? > If clear statements were made on Torproject.org rather than the ping pong on > the list I feel it would give people a better chance to get started in TOR > without first lurking and unscrambling jargon and cryptic comments. > > Rob > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: i...@torproject.org >> Sent: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 21:32:22 +0000 >> To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org >> Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Tor Relay Smartphone App >> >> Casey Rodarmor transcribed 2.0K bytes: >>> What is the minimum bandwidth/latency that a node requires in order for >>> it >>> to benefit the network? I read here* that 100 kilobytes/s each way would >>> be >>> enough, which I imagine many phones are capable of handling, and >>> represent >>> a small fraction of a wifi network's bandwidth. >>> >>> *https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay.html.en >>> >> >> Hello Casey, >> >> We're currently discussing that the above page should be updated to about >> 250KB/s. [0] >> >> The problem is this: All clients fetch information about all the relays >> in the >> network from the Directory Authorities/Mirrors, and these fetches take up >> a >> certain amount of bandwidth. If the relay is too slow, the bandwidth >> provided >> by that relay does not compensate for the directory fetching bandwidth >> used to >> tell people about the relay, and thus it is actively harming the network. >> >> Additionally, since Tor processes are normally CPU-bound, most relays >> aren't >> able to use all their available bandwidth with a single Tor process. >> Running a >> relay on ARM (or likely any other mobile/low power) CPU will only further >> limit how much traffic your relay is actually pushing. >> >> Additionally, if you're attempting to do this with Orbot on an Android >> device, >> you'll run into issues with Android's process management system and the >> Tor >> process randomly dying unexpectedly. This means that you are providing an >> unreliable, flapping relay which is actively messing up other people's >> connections through the Tor network. >> >> For the full thread where Mike Perry, myself, and other Tor developers >> are >> discussing the details of how badly slow relays mess up the network, see >> [0]. >> >> >> [0]: >> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-September/007558.html >> >> -- >> ♥Ⓐ isis agora lovecruft >> _________________________________________________________ >> OpenPGP: 4096R/0A6A58A14B5946ABDE18E207A3ADB67A2CDB8B35 >> Current Keys: https://blog.patternsinthevoid.net/isis.txt > > > -- > tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
