Hi Tony,<div><br></div><div>I'm curious as to how well it performed. How much RAM and CPU did the Linksys WRT54G have? </div><div>I was worried that the linksys/netgear/dlink brands would not be that fast. I could be wrong though...</div>
<div><br></div><div>Ah, so it did run out of memory. That's one of the two major problems I thought would happen with a "brand name" router.</div><div><br></div><div>I ran a Tor server for about 3 to 4 days to try and get a good baseline of performance. Do you have any performance stats? </div>
<div>If so, I would love to see them.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>- Kyle</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 7:00 AM, dante <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dante@virtualblueness.net">dante@virtualblueness.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi Kyle,<br>
<br>
Very nice work.<br>
<br>
You might be interested in something I did a little while ago. I got a<br>
tor server running on a wireless Linksys WRT54g router. This allows me<br>
to use tor at home with my laptops wirelessly.<br>
<br>
Here's a quick howto since I never published on my site:<br>
<br>
1) Get a MIPS I (little endian) environment up. I used qemu and<br>
installed debian-mipsel. I started with the ramdisk image<br>
mipsel-test-0.2.tar.gz from <a href="http://bellard.org/qemu/download.html" target="_blank">http://bellard.org/qemu/download.html</a> and<br>
bootstrapped into a fully functional debian system.<br>
<br>
2) I compiled tor statically linked. (CFLAGS="-static" ./configure)<br>
<br>
3) I got into my linksys using "Linux on WRTG54g" ...<br>
<a href="http://www.batbox.org/wrt54g-linux.html" target="_blank">http://www.batbox.org/wrt54g-linux.html</a><br>
<br>
4) I used ftpget to upload tor, configure and start it up.<br>
<br>
It works fine, but you run out of memory fast because you have to use<br>
ramdisk to store tor's cache files.<br>
<br>
Tony Basile<br>
<a href="http://opensource.dyc.edu" target="_blank">http://opensource.dyc.edu</a><br>
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<br>
Kyle Williams wrote:<br>
> If anyone is seriously thinking about a good hardware based solution for<br>
> Tor, I'd buy the gumstix now. In fact, I just bought a couple more just in<br>
> case mine breaks. I'll have the source code up withing a week, two tops The<br>
> FULL documentation will take about a bit longer to get done.<br>
><br>
> Well, that's about it. Feedback is welcome.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Best Regards,<br>
><br>
> Kyle<br>
><br>
> PS. Happy Holidays!<br>
><br>
><br>
<br>
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