Relay bandwidth limits boosted to 1M and 2M BPS

Roger Dingledine
November 9, 2019 at 8:05 PM
[adding back to the cc to network-health@, since I'm a poor bottleneck
for answering email]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 01:18:08PM -0700, Ric Steinberger wrote:
Roger - I think I've got a new Tor Relay 
setup, TahoeTor4, running on a Raspberry Pi 4.  A screenshot of the tail
 of a logfile is attached.  Anyway you could take a quick look to see 
whether it looks OK to you?  Have started with 500 KB (1000 KB surge) 
bandwidth.... Let me know what you think.
Looks good!
https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/ED96C0D8C4EA7753D8F2A63BB00AFBF96C419853
You could even bump up the available bandwidth, since relays with those
tiny bandwidth numbers tend to attract less traffic -- it looks from the
graphs above that your relay is doing maybe 30 or 40 KBytes/s as a long
term average, which is a lot less than 500 KBytes/s.

TahoeTor2 may be removed from
 any Tor system records.
Old relays will naturally fall out of the 'relay search' web results.
They will stay in the archived data sets at collector.torproject.org,
as historical records about the Tor network.

Thanks!
--Roger

Ric Steinberger
October 27, 2019 at 1:18 PM
Roger - I think I've got a new Tor Relay setup, TahoeTor4, running on a Raspberry Pi 4.  A screenshot of the tail of a logfile is attached.  Anyway you could take a quick look to see whether it looks OK to you?  Have started with 500 KB (1000 KB surge) bandwidth.... Let me know what you think.  TahoeTor2 may be removed from any Tor system records.

Thanks,

Ric Steinberger


Roger Dingledine
October 13, 2019 at 2:12 AM
On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 11:10:50AM -0700, Ric Steinberger wrote:
12pt;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Hi Roger - Thanks for 
reaching out. I do plan to do an upgrade, probably with a new Raspberry 
Pi 4, and likely in November.
Hi Ric,

Sounds great. Enjoy your traveling and I hope you come back
enthusiastic for more Tor. :)

  In the 
meantime, if you need to remove my current Tor router, please feel free 
and I will register the new one when I have it ready (probably with a 
new name).
It looks like we did indeed take this step last week:
https://blog.torproject.org/removing-end-life-relays-network

I will save your email and refer to it when I do the 
upgrade.<br><br>Does this make sense?  Please let me know if you have 
any questions, and thanks for all the good work you guys do...
Sounds great.

--Roger

Ric Steinberger
September 2, 2019 at 11:10 AM
Hi Roger - Thanks for reaching out. I do plan to do an upgrade, probably with a new Raspberry Pi 4, and likely in November.  This would be part of a home network upgrade to Wi-Fi 6 environment as soon as I can get a suitable router. [The network companies like Netgear have already started releasing these new routers, but I am waiting for a particular one from Netgear not yet out].

My wife & I will be traveling in October, but I hope to take on this project in late October and/or early November.  In the meantime, if you need to remove my current Tor router, please feel free and I will register the new one when I have it ready (probably with a new name).

I will save your email and refer to it when I do the upgrade.

Does this make sense?  Please let me know if you have any questions, and thanks for all the good work you guys do...

Ric Steinberger
Incline Village, NV


Roger Dingledine
September 2, 2019 at 1:45 AM
Hi Ric,

You are running a Tor relay, which is great:
http://rougmnvswfsmd4dq.onion/rs.html#details/DC7614250C29ED6389BB1384A381CE60A3407B1E

First: that Tor version is obsolete, and because of old bugs, we will
soon cut relays running those versions out of the network. Please
consider upgrading!

Second: let us know if there is any way to help you bump up the
bandwidth that you are allocating to the Tor relay. :)

You can find Tor packages for your distro / OS here:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide#PlatformspecificInstructions

Ideally you will switch to keeping up with our stable releases, but if
you need a stable that is especially stable, the Tor 0.3.5 branch will
be maintained until Feb 2022:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/CoreTorReleases#Current
and you can see the lifetimes of other Tor versions on that table too.

Let us know if we can do anything to make the process easier.

And lastly, I am cc'ing the new network health mailing list (which
has public archives), to help us stay synced:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkHealthTeam

Thanks!
--Roger


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