On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 04:37:29PM +0100, Nick wrote: > I'm probably going to move to a new ISP soon, and may well be able > to get a fibre 20Mbps up connection, which is a nice thought. The > question I have is whether my little ~1GHz home server box (a weird > little x86 thing, I can dig out more specs if they're relevant) > would be able to relay that level of traffic without issue? The > TorExitGuidelines page on the wiki mentions that one "modern" CPU > core should be able to push 100Mbps, but my server is probably 6/7 > years old. It's a VIA board, which IIRC might have some hardware > crypto acceleration or something - is that something that would be > likely to help things if I can get it working?
A 1GHz VIA is probably good up to 20-30 Mbps. You shouldn't even need the crypto accelerator to satisfy that (although if the accelerator works with OpenSSL it will save a bunch of CPU). Doing much else on that machine (like serving files) will probably run into CPU headroom problems, though. > P.S. Are there any known cases of law enforcement seizing equipment > or otherwise terrorising people for running home exit nodes? I would > like to imagine that Tor is well known enough in such circles that > such action would be rather unlikely nowadays. I know at least some > remailer operators host stuff from their homes, but maybe that's > lower risk. Yes, there are cases of law enforcement seizing all computer gear from a house with a exit node -- not just the exit node computer. Most recently in Austria in a child porn investigation. http://raided4tor.cryto.net/ Due to the incompetence of such law enforcement, I unfortunately cannot recommend to run an exit node at your home if your computers are necessary for your livelihood. Running a non-exit relay is much lower risk of being unjustly accused due to law enforcement incompetence. -andy _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
