[tor-commits] [tor/master] Note that bandwidth-limit options only affect TCP data.

nickm at torproject.org nickm at torproject.org
Tue Mar 14 23:47:01 UTC 2017


commit 8083e7c80bb2efb659207e9ce827a42552dc901c
Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm at torproject.org>
Date:   Tue Mar 14 19:46:57 2017 -0400

    Note that bandwidth-limit options only affect TCP data.
---
 changes/bug17170 | 3 +++
 doc/tor.1.txt    | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/changes/bug17170 b/changes/bug17170
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..24a9b94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/bug17170
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+  o Documentation:
+    - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or DNS.
+      Closes ticket 17170.
diff --git a/doc/tor.1.txt b/doc/tor.1.txt
index 1665cfe..2f8d7bd 100644
--- a/doc/tor.1.txt
+++ b/doc/tor.1.txt
@@ -185,6 +185,9 @@ GENERAL OPTIONS
     course, more is better; we recommend at least 250 KBytes (2 mbits) if
     possible.  (Default: 1 GByte) +
  +
+    Note that this option, and other bandwidth-limiting options, apply to TCP
+    data only: They do not count TCP headers or DNS traffic. +
+ +
     With this option, and in other options that take arguments in bytes,
     KBytes, and so on, other formats are also supported. Notably, "KBytes" can
     also be written as "kilobytes" or "kb"; "MBytes" can be written as



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