Hi there, I'm Tor's writer/editor. We just got a question on Twitter that I'm stumped on, and I had a quick look through the documentation and didn't find anything. Can anyone shed some light? - Can you set up a relay to provide more bandwidth during specified hours? (e.g. more at night, less during the day.) - Is there a way of configuring the relay to work only on certain days? I assume not, and that this would have to be done manually, maybe with cron? Cheers, TC
Quoting Tommy Collison (2018-01-09 19:55:47)
AFAIK, not through Tor. you can use OS-level traffic shaping (e.g. tc on Linux) to limit the allowed bandwidth. Tor automatically adjusts the advertised bandwidth to fit the allowed bandwidth, although not very well.
- Is there a way of configuring the relay to work only on certain days? I assume not, and that this would have to be done manually, maybe with cron?
same question, basically.
Attempting to limit a relay to only certain times of day, days of the week, etc., is very likely to produce a relay that doesn't really get used. I'm not sure I see the point in running a relay under those types of restrictions.
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