<div>Interesting; I wouldn't have expected it to be so high. I only measure my bandwidth globally, not per-port. In that case, it may be a good idea for Sebastian to disable the dirport to keep outgoing traffic roughly equivalent to incoming, since outgoing is his limitation.</div>
<br clear="all"> - John Brooks<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Scott Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bennett@cs.niu.edu">bennett@cs.niu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:58:49 -0700 John Brooks <<a href="mailto:special@dereferenced.net">special@dereferenced.net</a>><br>
top-posted:<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">>First off, thanks for running a node - the network always needs more<br>
>bandwidth.<br>
><br>
>As far as i'm aware, it isn't possible to specify incoming and outgoing<br>
>limits separately, and if it were, the outgoing would always be higher. For<br>
>the most part, relayed traffic is pretty close to 1:1; for everything that<br>
>comes in, there is equal data going out (to the next node in the chain, the<br>
>source, or the destination). The one major exception to this is the<br>
>directory; requests for the directory are very small, but the results can be<br>
>pretty large - but, that just means more outgoing than incoming. There is no<br>
>benefit to having more incoming bandwidth than you do outgoing bandwidth.<br>
>You can always disable the directory (DirPort 0) if you want to avoid that<br>
>little bit of outgoing traffic, but usually it isn't too significant.<br>
<br>
</div> I disagree. Now that my relay has been up for well over a month this<br>
time, pf reports that the RDR rule for the DirPort has handled bytes totalling<br>
nearly 16% of the number of bytes handled by the RDR rule for the ORPort.<br>
I've usually seen it higher than that, typically around 25%.<br>
<br>
<br>
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG<br>
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