[metrics-team] How to interpret written/read bytes per second in Relay Search?

Roger Dingledine arma at torproject.org
Wed Mar 25 08:45:58 UTC 2020


On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 03:39:42PM -0600, David Fifield wrote:
>     Do you
>    know offhand whether an apparent client address of 0.0.0.0, or no
>    address at all, would cause problems with measuring usage?

I would expect that bytes to or from an internal IP address, such as
0.0.0.0, would not count for usage stats.

I haven't checked the code, but I bet this is why the ExtOrPort is really
important for getting the stats right -- it tells Tor which IP address
the traffic is "really" coming from, so it can account for it properly.

--Roger



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