Hi Zalezny,
On 11/06/17 15:29, Zalezny Niezalezny wrote:
Hi,
I have 100mbit Up/Down connection at home. Most of the day, my connection is not use. Mostly between 22:00-17:00.
I would like to share my Internet connection for Tor. If I will setup some crontabs to start/stop my tor relay between that hours, will it work ? Does it make sense ? Will TOR network know that my relay is working only between 22:00 and 17:00 and will push some more traffic to me ?
How to properly configure such a relay which is working only for a few hours per day ?
Rather than starting & killing Tor with crontabs, I think you can use AccountingStart and AccountingMax config settings to achieve this.
https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual-dev.html.en
That way you can get Tor to *start* at the right time (with AccountingStart) - the only issue I can see is getting it to stop at the right time.
AccountingMax will stop Tor when the number of *bytes* has been reached, so if your line was being used flat out, this would be easy to calculate based on the your line's data rate.
You might need to have a play with a low AccountingMax setting and see what happens. When you first launch a relay it won't get much traffic but it will gradually increase over the coming weeks.
Cheers,
Paul