JanusPA - A hardware Privacy Adapter using Tor

[Kyle Williams]

Hi Tony,
I'm curious as to how well it performed.  How much RAM and CPU did the
Linksys WRT54G have?
I was worried that the linksys/netgear/dlink brands would not be that fast.
 I could be wrong though...

Ah, so it did run out of memory.  That's one of the two major problems I
thought would happen with a "brand name" router.

I ran a Tor server for about 3 to 4 days to try and get a good baseline of
performance.  Do you have any performance stats?
If so, I would love to see them.


- Kyle


On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 7:00 AM, dante <dante at virtualblueness.net> wrote:

> Hi Kyle,
>
> Very nice work.
>
> You might be interested in something I did a little while ago.  I got a
> tor server running on a wireless Linksys WRT54g router.  This allows me
> to use tor at home with my laptops wirelessly.
>
> Here's a quick howto since I never published on my site:
>
> 1) Get a MIPS I (little endian) environment up.  I used qemu and
> installed debian-mipsel.  I started with the ramdisk image
> mipsel-test-0.2.tar.gz from http://bellard.org/qemu/download.html and
> bootstrapped into a fully functional debian system.
>
> 2) I compiled tor statically linked. (CFLAGS="-static" ./configure)
>
> 3) I got into my linksys using "Linux on WRTG54g" ...
> http://www.batbox.org/wrt54g-linux.html
>
> 4) I used ftpget to upload tor, configure and start it up.
>
> It works fine, but you run out of memory fast because you have to use
> ramdisk to store tor's cache files.
>
> Tony Basile
> http://opensource.dyc.edu
>
>
>
> Kyle Williams wrote:
> > If anyone is seriously thinking about a good hardware based solution for
> > Tor, I'd buy the gumstix now.  In fact, I just bought a couple more just
> in
> > case mine breaks. I'll have the source code up withing a week, two tops
>  The
> > FULL documentation will take about a bit longer to get done.
> >
> > Well, that's about it.  Feedback is welcome.
> >
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Kyle
> >
> > PS.  Happy Holidays!
> >
> >
>
>
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