Also, a sort of related question: Would a dedicated raspberry pi with a decent OS on a high-quality 100M/100M connection do more harm than good? Would it be able to push significant traffic with its CPU?
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Casey Rodarmor <ca...@rodarmor.com> wrote: > Thank you very much for the pointer to that thread, super interesting! > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 6:32 AM, isis <i...@torproject.org> wrote: > >> 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. >> > > This is probably a silly question, but why don't nodes themselves gossip > in a P2P fashion about other nodes they've seen or heard about, in order to > avoid taxing directory authorities and mirrors? I'm sure that there are > security implications for this, but perhaps they could be overcome by > preferring nodes in different IP blocks and with diverse traceroutes, etc. > > >> 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. >> > > Is this because of the outer encryption wrapper layer decryption? > > >> 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. >> > > Is this an issue on all devices, or just some of them? Perhaps oorbot > could refuse to run, or at least display a warning if it looks like the > device is flaky. > -- 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
