[tor-relays] Port-Based Best-Fit Circuit Selection

[Paritesh Boyeyoko]

@Toralf

Correct, this has nothing to do with firewalls.  This is more about better utilisation of slow 
circuits/relays by deliberately choosing to push relatively lightweight traffic across them.  
IRC and XMPP do not need 10Mbit/s circuits, not even close.

I'm not sure how Tor clients choose the relays they use to build a circuit, and I do realise that 

a) there are probably more slow relays than fast ones
b) attempting to pre-build both a "fast circuit" and a "slow circuit" will reduce the number of 
candidates for each.

I'm just looking for ways to drive more traffic across slow relays. :)

Best,
-- 
Paritesh Boyeyoko
paritesh.boyeyoko at gmail.com
On Tuesday 16 Sep 2014 17:36:41 Toralf Förster wrote:
> On 09/16/2014 03:35 AM, Paritesh Boyeyoko wrote:
> > Hello --
> > So, I was thinking that in the same way that Tor relays have port-based exit policies, could they not 
> > also have port-based entrance policies?  I
> 
> Beside the general answer (probably "NO") - you mean something, which cannot be handled by a firewall ?
> 
>