[tor-relays] Bandwidth

[Tomas Sironi]

I think is clear. Tell me if the following is right to see
if I've understood you.

If I just use RelayBandwidthRate, will the client use as much bandwidth as
it needs? (with the default value limit of 5 MB)

Regards.


On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Sebastian Hahn <mail at sebastianhahn.net>wrote:

>
> On Jul 7, 2011, at 1:48 AM, Tomas Sironi wrote:
> > Hi people. In the Tor manual, the next options are specified:
>
> Hi Tomas,
>
> thanks for running a relay!
>
> >  - BandwidthRate
> >  - RelayBandwidthRate
> >
> > However i don't get to see the difference between those two. I imagined
> the first one is the bandwidth of tor being a client, and the second for the
> relay (server). But then i read this in the BandwidthRate description,
> breaking my previous supposition:
> >
> > ... If you want to run a relay in the public network, this needs to be at
> the very least 20 KB ...
> >
> > I know those options limit the bandwidth but i don't know exactly which
> affects what.
>
> The idea here is that BandwidthRate sets the limit of
> relay + client traffic (and many people only set
> BandwidthRate and leave RelayBandwidthRate alone,
> and that's fine). But if you also use Tor as a client then
> the relay will take up so much bandwidth that the client
> has no bandwidth left over, so you have set a lower
> RelayBandwidthRate so that there is some spare
> bandwidth left over for client usage.
>
> > I'm running my Tor as client and relay, so i'm a little bit confused.
> >
> > Can anyone explain that for me? Thanks!
>
> I hope this clears it up? If not, don't hesitate to
> ask further.
>
> Sebastian
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