On 03/14/2017 03:41 AM, David Fifield wrote:
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 02:34:39PM +0100, Mart van Santen wrote:
Are there any special requirements (hardware/network) for a obfs4 bridges and what are the typical resources needed? I think we have sufficient capacity within our infrastructure to support you with this, but would like some details. A quick scan on the Internet didn't reveal any surprising, but probably you know all better. Also, are there any geographical preferences?
There are no real requirements for hardware or network, though of course the bigger the better. You should count on about 1.5 cores being consumed by tor and obfs4proxy, so a two-core machine may struggle (bridge operators: does that match your experience?).
Here are some of the existing default bridges; you can see from their bandwidth graphs that they tend to read/write 5–30 MB/s: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/D9C805C955CB124D188C0D44F271E9BE57DE21... https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/3E0908F131AC417C48DDD835D78FB6887F4CD1... https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/FEC8FB380DABA9D3C80790B634E4540BF5D09C... https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/FFD3FAB14109181882D3F25F78A9FE1840D113... https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/D3D4A456FCB5F301F092F6A49ED671B84B432F...
As for geographic preferences, I don't know.
Hello all,
In that case I do not see any problems to run a few, to a maximum of 4. For example 2 in Europe, and 2 in Asia.
Please let me know if you want us to move forward with this.
Regards,
Mart