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Does Tor work with Intel QAT acceleration
by Andreas Bollhalder 08 Jun '22

08 Jun '22

Hi all I have my first Tor relay up und running. It's currently installed on a little desktop computer with an Intel i5 9500T CPU. My Internet connection is 10Gb/s symetric. From this bandwidth, I would be able to spend a good part for supporting the Tor network. With that little machine, it seems that it would max out at somewhere at ~30 MBytes/s. For my definitive Tor relay hardware, I'm currently researching some options, which would be capable of handling Tor traffic at the rate of 200 to 300MBytes. Even it would be used nowadays, but who knows whats coming in the future and I hope this relay would last 5 years ore so. It looks to me, that with a normal CPU, it's impossible to reach my goal. But then I encountered, that Intel has the Quick Assist Technoloy (QAT) integrated in some of their products (ie. Atom C3xx8). This QAT can be used with OpenSSL as a hardware accelerator for encryption. There also exist dedicated PCIe cards with QAT (ie. Netgate CPIC-8955). Searching the Internet, I couldn't find any information if QAT would be helpful with Tor. But Tor uses the OpenSSL library and this can use the QAT acceleration. Is there anyone who has tried this und can share his expirience? Thanks in advance Andreas

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[warn] Received a bad CERTS cell: Link certificate does not match TLS certificate
by Felix 08 Jun '22

08 Jun '22

Hi all I found a message in the logs: Apr 16 15:07:46.000 [warn] Received a bad CERTS cell: Link certificate does not match TLS certificate -- Cheers Felix

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Debian is not allowing tor to update despite it being listed as a trusted respritory
by Keifer Bly 08 Jun '22

08 Jun '22

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Weird spike in written bytes per second
by Marco Predicatori 08 Jun '22

08 Jun '22

Hi, the graph shows a marked difference between written bytes per second and read bytes per second om 2022-05-19 and 2022-05-20. In any other day the bytes are roughly the same. What might my node have "written" on those two days? https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/A4E74410D83705EEFF24BC265DE2… Thanks, Marco

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Update on tor issue on my debian
by Keifer Bly 08 Jun '22

08 Jun '22

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Re: [tor-relays] [Workshop] Sysadmin 101 for (new) relay operators - June 4th
by Isaac Grover, Aileron I.T. 07 Jun '22

07 Jun '22

Good morning Gus, For those of us with families and other weekend commitments, will an on-demand replay be made available afterwards? Make your day great, Isaac Grover

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bridge issue
by potlatch 07 Jun '22

07 Jun '22

Hello, I have a bridge [1] that doesn't have any keys in /var/lib/tor/keys! How is that possible and how do I fix the problem? potlatch [1] FB45183DD82D572CA2B2641C1AB0EB0D8CE7B858 Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email.

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EOL after changing operatin system
by Fred 03 Jun '22

03 Jun '22

Hey there, I had to change my operating system and started an new relay instead of using the old keys. The new one is runnig fine. Dead relay: 67D1278A974D61104F7273E6266DEF3A5C26F191 T heoor Sorry, Daniel -- Gesendet mit Vivaldi Mail. Laden Sie Vivaldi kostenlos von vivaldi.com herunter.

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EOL 2 x relay
by Anders Burmeister 03 Jun '22

03 Jun '22

Hi Heroes I’m sorry to inform you, that my two relays will discontinue and no longer participating from 28 july 2022. Had a lot of fun here. Fingerprint: EFEACD781604EB80FBC025EDEDEA2D523AEAAA2F Fingerprint: 484A10BA2B8D48A5F0216674C8DD50EF27BC32F3 I wish you all the best Regards Anders

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Relay migration: best practices?
by tor＠nullvoid.me 30 May '22

30 May '22

Hello, I operate a small family of relays, over the 5 years it's been very set and forget and easy to maintain. Over those 5 years the servers have been cluttered with other half completed projects and general mess. I plan on reinstalling the OS from scratch, and understand I must backup the "keys/ed25519_master_id_secret_key" and "keys/secret_id_key" in the DataDirectory. Then copy them over on the new server. The hostname will change but the IP will stay the same. The server I am working on is not listed as a fallback directory server, but has been in the past. Is there any other things I can do to disrupt the damage done to the tor network during this downtime? Especially to any clients using it as a bridge. Thanks,

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