[tor-relays] One IPv4 address, 1Gbit connection

[Tim]

My apologies - I wasn't aware of the 2 relays per IP restriction.

Is it for security reasons?



On 1 Jul 2014, at 23:48 , Roman Mamedov <rm at romanrm.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 22:36:10 +1000
> Tim <t_ebay at icloud.com> wrote:
> 
>> Tom,
>> 
>> Why not run multiple tor relays on different ports on the same IPv4 address?
>> 
>> For example, you could run 6 relays on 6 different ports on your IPv4 address (6 x 180 Mpbs > 1 Gbps).
>> 
>> This would also utilise your 4 cores much more efficiently than running 2 relays (each relay will only ever use 1 core for most operations).
> 
> Because more than two relays per IPv4 address is ignored by the network; and
> that was the whole point of the question.
> 
> I suggested some time ago that with the scarcity of IPv4 *and* abundance of
> multi-core CPUs that the Tor developers should really consider raising the
> relays-per-IP limit from 2 to at least 3 or 4.
> 
> Sure one can use IPv6, but I doubt there's any serious amounts of traffic on
> IPv6 via Tor, so it will not help  with the original request to do something
> which would help better utilize the full available bandwidth.
> 
> -- 
> With respect,
> Roman