On 5 Dec. 2016, at 10:51, Mirimir mirimir@riseup.net wrote:
On 12/02/2016 02:13 AM, Toralf Förster wrote:
On 12/02/2016 10:07 AM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists wrote:
I'm trying to stress some very small dedicated server with ViaNano and Atoms and would like to try out multiple Tor relay with AES hw acceleration to see the limits
AFAIC there's a limit of 2 Tor instances per ip address.
IPv6 addresses typically come in large blocks. And there can be arbitrary numbers of IPv6 addresses on eth0, right? So could one bind instances only to IPv6?
No, it's not possible to run a tor relay without an IPv4 address.
If you want to do testing with many relays, don't do it on the live tor network. It bloats the consensus and descriptors that every relay and client download.
Instead, run a test network with TestingTorNetwork set, and set up your own test directory authorities. Then you can use the entire 127/8 IPv4 address range.
chutney does this for you automatically.
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