Re: [tor-relays] sharing tor relay at night or working hours ? make sense ?

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 09:00:48AM -0700, Zalezny Niezalezny wrote:

ok , if I will replace configuration file with the new settings, do I need to reload or restart my tor node ? I do not want to loose my active connections. How to do it properly ?

Tor has a control port that can be used to change configuration on-the-fly. And there's a library to talk to it in Python called Stem. (https://stem.torproject.org/) With Stem, you'd do something like this:

from stem.control import Controller

with Controller.from_port(port = 9051) as controller: controller.authenticate() controller.set_options({ "BandwidthRate": "1073741824", "BandwidthBurst": "1073741824", "MaxAdvertisedBandwidth": "1073741824", })