<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Tom,</div><div><br></div>Why not run multiple tor relays on different ports on the same IPv4 address?<br><div apple-content-edited="true"><br>
</div><div apple-content-edited="true">For example, you could run 6 relays on 6 different ports on your IPv4 address (6 x 180 Mpbs > 1 Gbps).</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">This would also utilise your 4 cores much more efficiently than running 2 relays (each relay will only ever use 1 core for most operations).</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">Tim</div>
<br><div><blockquote type="cite">Mon, 30 Jun 2014 14:48:59 +0200 Christian Dietrich <<a href="mailto:christian.d.dietrich@gmail.com">christian.d.dietrich@gmail.com</a>>:<br><br>Hi there,<br><br>You will never be able to utilize the whole gigabit connection, at least<br>with the current tor version.<br>I'm also running 2 tor nodes (00000000000myTOR) on a single machine (3rd<br>gen Core i, Quad Core /w AES-NI) on an single IP,<br>reaching ~1.3 Gbit/s on an 1000 Base-T FD connection. Since you do not use<br>hardware accelerated crypto,<br>your transfer speed should be much lower. Anway my relays are also cpu<br>limited due to the fact that tor isn't<br>really utilizing much more than one cpu core.<br><br>- Christian<br><br><br>2014-06-30 13:05 GMT+02:00 Tom van der Woerdt <<a href="mailto:info@tvdw.eu">info@tvdw.eu</a>>:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Hi,<br><br>I'm running a Tor exit node on a 1gbit connection. Currently it's maxing<br>at about 180Mbit/s (both ways, so 360Mbit/s) per instance, and I'm running<br>two instances.<br><br>That's not really using the connection well. The box has 4 cores (no<br>AES-NI) and I'm looking for ways to utilize the other 640Mbit/s.<br><br>Sadly it's not possible to get more IPv4 addresses on this box. I do<br>however have access to a big range of IPv6 addresses.<br><br>Can I somehow run more Tor instances on this box by utilizing those IPv6<br>addresses? Or are there other ways to optimize the throughput and get<br>closer to that 1Gbit?<br><br>Tom</blockquote></blockquote></div></body></html>