Hello! A short question I didn't found in the FAQ or with Google: "Does Tor (as an exit node) need a TUN or TAP device"? I am a poor pupil and with my provider servers without TUN/TAP (VRS) are 1€ cheaper per month than the ones with (KVM). LG Sebastian -- vy 73 de Sebastian Pfeifer OE6SPD Folgt mir auf Twitter! @0xDEADDA7A http://www.qth.at/oe6spd/index.php?seite=start http://www.greenpeace.org/austria/de/aktivwerden/greenpeace-teams/team_wien/ Denk an die Umwelt! Musstest du diese Mail wirklich ausdrucken? 0xB1120583 生き甲斐
11.11.2013 21:36, Sebastian Pfeifer kirjoitti:
Hello! A short question I didn't found in the FAQ or with Google: "Does Tor (as an exit node) need a TUN or TAP device"? I am a poor pupil and with my provider servers without TUN/TAP (VRS) are 1€ cheaper per month than the ones with (KVM).
LG Sebastian
I don't think that it needs that. I'm not sure though. Please correct me if i'm wrong about this. -- Best Regars, Anonymous - Supporter of Free Speech. GPG: 0x78612223
Quoth Sebastian Pfeifer <sebastian@pfeifer.or.at>, on 2013-11-11 20:36:02 +0100:
Hello! A short question I didn't found in the FAQ or with Google: "Does Tor (as an exit node) need a TUN or TAP device"?
It does not require tun/tap; Tor runs over and exits through TCP sockets exclusively, last I checked. However:
servers without TUN/TAP (VRS)
If by this you mean something like OpenVZ or a similar "container" implementation, such that your node shares kernel memory with other containers, beware of limitations on the number of sockets you can have open at once. Tor keeps a large number of connections open simultaneously, and if it is not permitted to do this it may not function properly. Hope this helps. ---> Drake Wilson
On 2013-11-11 22:15, Drake Wilson wrote:
Quoth Sebastian Pfeifer <sebastian@pfeifer.or.at>, on 2013-11-11 20:36:02 +0100:
Hello! A short question I didn't found in the FAQ or with Google: "Does Tor (as an exit node) need a TUN or TAP device"? It does not require tun/tap; Tor runs over and exits through TCP sockets exclusively, last I checked. However: Thank you.
servers without TUN/TAP (VRS) If by this you mean something like OpenVZ or a similar "container" implementation, such that your node shares kernel memory with other containers, beware of limitations on the number of sockets you can have open at once. Tor keeps a large number of connections open simultaneously, and if it is not permitted to do this it may not function properly. It is a sort of container but not OpenVZ, although they don't say what it is, only that "network resources" are shared so it might be really a bad idea to run TOR on it. I will maybe just take the KVM again for my new node... I maybe have to go with the smaller server then though that has only half of the traffic (500GB/month) and really really low (128MB; well it works now on 128MB) RAM... But as I said I don't really have the money for things like that.
Hope this helps.
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