On Jul 7, 2011, at 1:48 AM, Tomas Sironi wrote:
Hi people. In the Tor manual, the next options are specified:
Hi Tomas,
thanks for running a relay!
- BandwidthRate
- RelayBandwidthRate
However i don't get to see the difference between those two. I imagined the first one is the bandwidth of tor being a client, and the second for the relay (server). But then i read this in the BandwidthRate description, breaking my previous supposition:
... If you want to run a relay in the public network, this needs to be at the very least 20 KB ...
I know those options limit the bandwidth but i don't know exactly which affects what.
The idea here is that BandwidthRate sets the limit of relay + client traffic (and many people only set BandwidthRate and leave RelayBandwidthRate alone, and that's fine). But if you also use Tor as a client then the relay will take up so much bandwidth that the client has no bandwidth left over, so you have set a lower RelayBandwidthRate so that there is some spare bandwidth left over for client usage.
I'm running my Tor as client and relay, so i'm a little bit confused.
Can anyone explain that for me? Thanks!
I hope this clears it up? If not, don't hesitate to ask further.
Sebastian