[tor-relays] Bridges on OpenWrt

Patrick O'Doherty patrick at patrickodoherty.com
Wed Mar 9 19:48:22 UTC 2011


My experience is that the packages available for OpenWRT have been quite
outdated though your mileage may vary

P

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Mitar <mmitar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Is there some package for running Tor bridges on OpenWrt supported devices?
>
> But as I understand Tor bridges consumes same amount of CPU power and
> RAM as Tor itself so they are not really possible for low power
> devices as WiFi routers where OpenWrt normally runes (with typically
> around 16 MB RAM and 200 MHz CPU power).
>
> But on the other hand, as we have in operation a lot of WiFi routers
> around the country, many of them having their own public IP from very
> diverse IP ranges, this would be quite useful for bridges.
>
> So my question is if somebody has tried to do something like that?
> Have some experience with it?
>
> And also if maybe bridges support would be possible to extend so that
> we could make (low overhead) tunnels from this WiFi routers to the
> central server where there would be running a Tor node connected to
> the Tor network, having enough CPU power and RAM to run everything. So
> it would be great if the Tor clients would be able to connect to those
> VPNed end points, but encryption itself would be done on the server.
>
>
> Mitar
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