[tor-relays] Raspberry Pi Relay Node Performance and future Plans on Documentation and more

[Lance Hathaway]

Speaking only for myself (in turn), this is something I would desperately like to see. I've been planning on deploying several Raspberry Pis for Tor, but seeing all the reports on storms and routers crashing and etc. has demonstrated that it's just not ready for prime time yet--unless you go into all the debugging and manual tweaking required.

While I'm capable of getting a Pi to work correctly and write a few scripts to do specific tasks (I'm running two of them as automated, remotely-updatable video noticeboards), I don't have the expertise required to go through all the steps of compiling all the dependencies and source and then setting everything up. I can follow a list of steps, even steps with a significant amount of technical jargon and assumed knowledge, but navigating it on my own isn't something I currently have time to do.

On that note, if you ever want feedback on your blog post, I'd be happy to provide some.

 -Lance




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 From: Gordon Morehouse <gordon at morehouse.me>
To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org 
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 8:13:45 AM
Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Raspberry Pi Relay Node Performance and future Plans on Documentation and more
 

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tor_bridge at mail.md:
> Is it possible for the Tor project to make an extra option on the
> page https://www.torproject.org/download/download-unix.html.en with
> instructions for people to run a bridge/relay on the Pi? I think
> it will help people not to spend time on installing the
> experimental wheezy package for the ARMv7 architecture.

Speaking only for myself, I have a huge blog post (to be edited down,
most of it is notes to myself right now) brewing on how to make an
extremely stable, congestion-avoidant Raspberry Pi relay (or bridge)
node that can be plugged into friends' and family members' broadband
connections and help the network without degrading their performance.

It's still very much a work in progress.  There are a lot of Tor relay
on Pi guides out there, but they're mostly just "do this, this, this
and go" which has bad results in some cases as we've seen, and
requires more manual configuration than I personally would prefer for
congestion avoidance.

My dream is a teeny relay on ALL the broadbands.

Best,
- -Gordon M.


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