[tor-relays] Traffic limitation

Contra Band contra0band at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 19 12:17:07 UTC 2014


One way is to limit the bw in /etc/tor/torrc 

RelayBandwidthRate 100 KB

Long term you have to get at least 2TB vps or unmetered bandwidth. Once the relay is stable there will be lot of connections. 



On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 8:56 PM, "s7r at sky-ip.org" <s7r at sky-ip.org> wrote:



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On 6/18/2014 10:46 PM, Relay Admin wrote:
> Both has downsides but I think daily is better, if it starts to get
> a lot traffic than it will serve the network for a few hours every
> day, but in monthly if it use the all available bw in 4 days, it
> won't do anything for 26 days. I'm sure you can get a better answer
> for it from someone who limits the traffic on his/her relay.
> 
> Berkay
> 
> On June 18, 2014 9:11:57 PM EEST, johhher 
> <mailinglists-incoming at eigenbasis.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running a Tor relay on a cheap Linux vserver with high
> bandwidth. I have a traffic limitation of 500Gb per month and was
> just wondering what would be the best configuration for the
> network. Currently I've limited the traffic to a daily maximum to
> prevent it from hibernating a long time at the end of the month. Is
> this the right way to do it? Or would be better to limit it on a 
> monthly basis.
> 
> Thanks for an answer! Johhher 
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That is quite a low limit for a monthly cap. If it is a high speed
server it will consume the traffic within 5 days, after some time and
it's known in the consensus and gains some flags.

I think you are better of putting accounting per day, a daily limit of
16GB should do it. Or, see if you negotiate with your provider
unlimited traffic :) long shot worth to try

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