Questions tagged [bandwidth]
The rate of data transfer. It may refer to both the rate what tor requires to function, and also the data rate of the embedded traffic.
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Can a Hidden Service track you the same way an exit node can?
imagine if the onion service decided to be the malicious exit node itself. It’s not (Exit node) but could it travel back through its relays (possibly even skip) to the rendezvous point that track you ...
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One domain for multiple self-hosted services VS a single domain per service?
After generating a self-signed SSL certificate for a self-hosted Dash app, and verifying that it is accessible over tor, I intend to include self-hosted GitLab and Nextcloud over https. Hence, I was ...
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How can I get the right advertised bandwidth of a relay by looking at cached-microdesc-consensus file?
Let's take a random Tor relay: privater
Tor Metrics says that it has a speed of 30 MiB/s: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/57A295377F3167AD554B521F4615184943C39CE1
Looking this relay ...
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Could there be a way to make the Tor network faster by paying money?
Suppose someone has a lot of monero (or some other sufficiently private currency) and they want to have highest possible data throughput while maintaining anonymity.
Has anyone researched protocols ...
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Advertised Bandwidth 0 B/s: Why?
My 7 year old relay was down for a week.
In torrc I have:
RelayBandwidthRate 180 MBytes
RelayBandwidthBurst 200 MBytes
But even so I get:
Advertised Bandwidth 0 B/s
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Fast/Slow relays in Tor
How does Tor classify fast/slow relays (as in what is the bandwidth bar)?
Is the Tor Path Selection protocol biased towards selecting fast relays for circuit construction? (The answer here How does a ...
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Advertised bandwidth rising but consensus weight falling?
I am a new non-exit relay operator, currently running TOR v4.5.4 rc on a RaspberryPi 3B+, on a FTTH connection.
My relay is https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/...
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How does TOR divide bandwidth fairly between clients?
Is there some sort of limitation/throttling logic at all? And if so, is it based on the tor client instance, connection or IP address?
What if I download a file over HTTP and download the first half ...
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Automated script for selecting fast TOR circuit?
I noticed a significant variance in bandwidth with different TOR circuits. Some are fast enough for streaming HD videos, while others take ages just loading web pages unless Javascript is deactivated. ...
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Details about Tor's Packaging Window and Delivery Window
I have learned Tor's congestion control policy from the paper: Tor：The Second-Generation Onion Router. But I don't understand Tor's Packaging Window and Delivery Window.
The paper said: "The ...
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Higher probability that nodes with higher bandwidth are selected for circuit
In the course of my master thesis I am currently trying to rebuild a simplified version of the selection algorithm from Tor. During my research, I found the following selection algorithm in some ...
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Calculating relay bandwidth/burst
I am allowed 3646 GB of transfer in a month on my droplet, and the droplet is at 3746 which means I have to pay an 'overage' besides the cost of each droplet (2).
torrc:
Current bandwidth is at 100 ...
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How is a Tor relay's advertised bandwidth verified?
Back in 2007, Bauer et al. showed that a relay-level adversary could lie about their bandwidth capabilities, thus unfairly increasing the chance of having their relay selected in Tor circuits [^1].
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Tor Client limit bandwidth
Is there any way to limit the bandwidth used by Tor as a client? I use Tor as a client and I want to limit the bandwidth used by Tor without any additional application.
Is that possible?
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Why is my Tor bridge relay not getting any traffic?
I used to run a Tor bridge on Windows at home, where I have a 300/150 Mbps ISP. This Windows has memory leak and crashes after some hours, ad I believe that was making my bridge never get traffic.
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Is there a way to change the relay BandwidthRate and -Burst options during the night? [duplicate]
I'm operating a tor (guard) relay and I have currently, as per the manual, capped the bandwidth rate and bandwidth burst to allow me to also use my internet connection without any notable performance ...
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No traffic on obfs4 bridge
I am running an obfs4 bridge on my raspberry pi since 10 days now and haven't seen a single client since then.
My torrc looks like this:
RunAsDaemon 1
ORPort 9001
ExitRelay 0
BridgeRelay 1
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Are the Bandwidth authorities and the Directory Authorities the same servers?
Are the Bandwidth authorities and the Directory Authorities the same servers? do the same people run both? or am i posing the wrong question, is reporting on bandwidth a job that the Directory ...
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Why is my middle relay not picking up much traffic?
I have been running a middle relay on a Linode VPS for many months now (atlas report).
My only bandwidth-relevant torrc setting is AccountingMax, set to 2 TB. The available bandwidth advertised by ...
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How to remove all bandwidth limits for Tor relay?
How to remove all bandwidth limits for Tor relay?
Is there some kind of an torrc option to do that?
P.S. What I'm trying to do is to give tor relay as much traffic
and resource power as I could. ...
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Looking for up to date tutorial on running multiple tor exit nodes on one machine
I have:
Debian 8
two IPs on the Linux machine
What would be the best way to run multiple tor (exit-)server instances on this machine?
I guess I have to define multiple torrc files and also have an ...
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How to deal with DDOS attacks?
This post was not helpful:
How to protect a hidden service against DDOS attack?
My onion keeps getting hit with denial of service attacks. Is there anything I can do to minimize the effects? POST ...
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Tor relay bandwidth not corresponding
i've recently started a new relay for support purpose, but in the torrc file i've added this lines:
BandwidthRate 60 MBytes
BandwidthBurst 60 MBytes
But on ATLAS it seems to remain on 250 KB, why my ...
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A few questions about how bandwidth scanners work
I have a few questions related to how bandwidth scanners work. I would appreciate it a lot if anyone could answer any one (or all) of them:
From what I read in the bandwidth scanners spec, my ...
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What is the most appropriate kind of hardware to run a Tor relay on?
In the purpose of setting up a Tor relay that makes good use of a fast FTTH connection, what computer will do the job most efficiently at the time of writing, provided the following requirements are ...
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Finding available bandwidth of a relay
Is there any method to get the available bandwidth of a Tor Relay. (Not the one the relay publishes itself.)
Plus I wrote the following sets of code:
from stem.descriptor.remote import ...
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How do bandwidth authorities measure bandwidth?
After reading a number of questions and resources on bandwidth measurements and life cycle of tor relays:
can anyone tell me about the bandwidth weights?
Can anybody explain the Advertised bandwidth,...
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Wrong average bandwidth stats in arm?
See screenshot below. Arm seems to calculate a wrong average: "avg: 2.3 MB/sec".
I haven't been close to 2.3 MegaByte/sec; not even as peek.
That's my relay:
https://atlas.torproject.org/#...
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How does Tor protect against flooding with artificially long circuits
Since the path and the length of a circuit can be chosen by a modified client an attacker could make it arbitrarily long and thus multiply the the impact of his traffic on the network by the amount of ...
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Does Tor have any protection against bandwidth misuse?
Let's say someone runs 100 Tor instances on their machine and with their high speed internet connection -> download huge volumes of data through all of those instances.
Are there any mechanisms ...
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Why is my measured bandwidth so low compared to actual -- is there a off by 1K issue?
I've noticed my Tor relay measured bandwidth is very low compared to both my advertized and external-to-Tor measured bandwidth. Based on the following observations, I wonder: is there's a 1K scale ...
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Why do relays not end idle TCP sessions?
I'm running a relay on a 1Gbps connection. However, my relay averages around 3Mbps up/down each after several months. After substantial investigation, I found the cause: my relay sets up TCP sessions ...
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why is the weight for guards in exit position equal to weight of both guard ans exit flagged nodes for exit position?
Why is the weight factor Weg set equal to Wed in tor code (in file dirvote.c)? How does it still result in correct probabilities?
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Qualities of a good relay (besides the obvious)
I’m currently working on Roster, a tor project that aims to reward relay operators with good relays.
Besides the obvious requirements of a good relay (e.g. speed, geo-diversity, constant uptime), ...
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Accurately measuring bandwidth
I am working on a tor project that deals with relays' bandwidths. Recently, I have spoken to a relay operator who divulged that the observed bandwidth of one of the relays was faked. The data was ...
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Why my relay is so slow?
I have a connection of 100mb/s and its going too slow, just look here: https://globe.torproject.org/#/search/query=A11BAE8F2676FF78727EE74949836E495D801D90
The relay is located in a OVH VPS
How can ...
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If there was multicore support, what limit is there to hidden service or relay bandwidth?
If there was multicore support, what limit is there to hidden service or relay bandwidth? Given that a single cloudflare server supports at least six gigabits of bandwidth (although it's likely ...
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Tor network used a little bit of my relay bandwidth. Why?
I have a Tor exit relay for about 6 months and assign 1600 KBps for RelayBandwidthRate. Until a week ago, used bandwidth on my relay was equal to 600-700 KBps. But in this last 6 days, used bandwidth ...
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Exit Relay Bandwidth Data not showing on Tor Globe or Atlas [closed]
I recently set up a Tor exit relay on Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS server, using a VPS. It's running fine, with an average throughput of about 1 MB/s, and shows up OK on Tor Atlas and Tor Globe. To try to ...
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Relay bandwidth reporting frequency
I've been running a middle relay on a Raspberry Pi for some time now. Recently, I switched out my first generation Pi for a 2nd generation model B. I installed Tor on the new Pi and moved the keys ...
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What's a good RelayBandwidthRate?
I know the minimum required rate is 20KB, and the minimum rate to be considered "fast" is around 100KB, but even the "fast" rate seems incredibly slow to me, compared to the average download speed of ...
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Better to run one relay or two, given equal total bandwidth?
For example, would it be more helpful to the network to setup one relay that had 4TB of bandwidth, or two relays that each had 2TB? Does the answer change depending on the amount of bandwidth each ...
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What does the heartbeat line in my torrc mean?
I know that the Tor logs are in /var/log/tor. I have a question as to what one of the lines in the log means though. I see something along these lines:
Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 4 days 18:00 hours, ...
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Calculation of bandwidth and measured-bandwidth for votes
In the consensus files there are bandwidth specifications for every router. This (consensus) data originates from the directory authorities votes, which contain a bandwidth as well as measured ...
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Is it me or the relay info websites?
I got my relay working just fine, torrc is all configured to my liking, etc. But when I checked Atlas and Globe to see the bandwidth differences between when I went to bed last night and when I got up ...
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Default relay bandwidth?
I successfully setup my Tor relay last night, and it has been running for a few hours now. But looking at it this morning, it is not getting that much advertised bandwidth. It has gone up since the ...
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Tor hidden service bandwith question
I have a newbie question here. When you setup a Tor hidden service do you yourself use up bandwidth on your network or does is the traffic attributed to the relay?
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Should I run fast Tor relay or a stable relay is fine?
I recently started a Tor Relay on my own VPS. It has 500GB bandwidths each month, and I limited bandwidth rate to 1500 KBytes.
I don't know which one is better for Tor network:
Running a fast relay ...
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Are these specs (VPS) good enough to run a Tor relay?
I want to run a bunch of Tor relays, and so plan to buy 10 $5 VPS's from a company called Beastnode. I have had an amazing experience with this company for game servers and websites in the past, so I ...
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Probability by bandwidth: Using multiple or one Relay with equal total Bandwidth
Is there a higher probability, if an attacker is using one OR of bandwidth 5 MB/s than 5 ORs with each 1 MB/s?
If you calculate the probability of picking a certain OR, you can use the weighted ...
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