Re: [tor-relays] Relay usage dropped 9x when enabling UFW. What UFW rules > do other relay operators enact?

Hi Likogan,

What UFW rules do other relay operators enact?

I'm running 4CEAFCE5841C0DAE30164B4F59452F7F4D818A67 on Linux Mint 21.3 (should be close to Ubuntu Jammy) with UFW enabled, and don't have any issues. I have the same two rules for Tor as you do. I can imagine three things:

1. To me it looks like you have other rules before your Tor rules. Are any of them rate limiting? 2. I don't run an exit node, so I don't know how UFW would behave in that case. 3. Do you have logging rules? I once had issues with my router running out of CPU due to some logging rules being triggered by Tor-related traffic (potentially malicious). Maybe UFW could achieve something similar?

Hope that helps.

Cheers, zorc