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

[Thomas Hand]

Hi Gordon,
I'm having a little trouble installing your deb files using sudo dpkg -i.
Am I missing something.
Thx. Tom
 On Aug 18, 2013 12:36 AM, "Gordon Morehouse" <gordon at morehouse.me> wrote:

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> Good news, everyone!
>
> 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.
>
>
> I've put binary .debs[1] up of the latest Tor experimental version -
> 0.2.4.16-rc - which are built for the Raspberry Pi.  I only have a few
> days of test data, but so far it appears to perform much better than
> 0.2.3.x.
>
> I'm working to get a few more Pi-based relays into the homes of
> friends so I can experiment with congestion avoidance and easy setup
> and eventually make a Raspbian 'flavor' and .deb metapackage that can
> turn any Pi into a high stable, extremely congestion-avoidant Tor relay.
>
> The congestion avoidance paranoia is because of this inevitable truth:
> if the TorPi that Johnny plugged into grandma's broadband makes
> Netflix or Hulu perform poorly, grandma will unplug it.  So, I'm
> anticipating on writing some scripts and utilizing some relatively new
> kernel congestion avoidance facilities such as TCP CoDel[2].
>
> This will take a while, don't hold your breath.  But in light of
> recent news, I'm committed to it.
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/gordon-morehouse/torbian/tree/master/raspbian_packages
>
> [2]
>
> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/05/codel-buffer-management-could-solve-the-internets-bufferbloat-jams/
>
> Best,
> - -Gordon M.
>
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