Tor and bandwidth consumption... part 2

[Matt Thorne]

that is a relief. I didn't want to help create something that would not be
good for a system like this. I was thinking that if It got to a level where
we do have a huge number of torpark users, then we could branch the torpark
people off to useing only torpark servers. But that isn't a very realistic
idea, as it would require a huge number of people online at any one time.
but who knows, maybe something to watch.

On 10/11/05, Martin Balvers <m.balvers at addicts.nl> wrote:
>
> The connection will time-out, and the client will build another circuit
> for the connection. Tor is designed to handle servers that suddenly
> disappear.
>
> As for bandwidth, how many clients do you think there are now? And home
> much impact will a couple of Torpark clients have?
> Personaly, I don't think the Tor network will notice the difference.
> The biggest bandwith problem at the momen (an probably in the future) is
> p2p traffic routed through Tor. You can see the effect right now, Tor is
> almost not usable anymore because it is used for p2p traffic.
>
> Martin
>
>
> > and as I think more, what happens to the people who are using the
> portable
> > server when it is time to unplug the server. How baddly would that mess
> > with
> > tor if one of the servers you were using dissapeared. Would tor just
> > recircut?
> > is there some way to send a I am exiting, choose a different circut
> > warning?
> >
> > On 10/10/05, Matt Thorne <mlthorne at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> for normal consumption I don't know. but What happens when yea old
> >> chinese
> >> dissident pops up behind the great firewall . One would have to hope
> >> that he
> >> wasn't an exit node. would probably work as a middleman though...
> >>
> >> On 10/10/05, Arrakis Tor <arrakistor at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I am still concerned with Torparks users bogging down the Tor exit
> >> > nodes.
> >> >
> >> > Did anyone have any ideas if 30 minute to 5 hour bursts of thousands
> >> > of exit servers winking in and out of the tor network would be of any
> >> > use? Does the directory protocol need to be ammended to take
> advantage
> >> > of Torpark servers, if I create server editions?
> >> >
> >> > ST
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
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