[tor-relays] Tor node was doing more traffic than its bandwidthis configured for

[tor at t-3.net]

Yeah, this must be wrong, then.

I put this in the torrc:

RelayBandwidthRate 35 MB

RelayBandwidthBurst 40 MB

and I was looking to limit it to 35-40 "M" as shown in Cacti, which 
would be MBits.



On Sunday 08/09/2013 at 5:38 am, grarpamp  wrote:
> On 9/8/13, Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Are you sure you didn't confuse bits and bytes? Tor counts in bytes.
>>
>> (The arm monitor, if that's what you're using, counts in bits by 
>> default.)
>
> As with real networks and operators, if this is so, then big thank
> you to arm people for correctly counting network bandwidth in bps.
> No thanks on webhosters and isp's who convert their upstrream
> bandwidth contracts into transfer bytes and pass that on to their
> customers for their apache logs, thereby spoofing hosted network
> *bandwidth* apps like Tor into feeling some silly need to count bytes.
> Do wish Tor would speak properly in bits by default.
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