[tor-relays] Custom bandwith for different time ranges

Tim Wilson-Brown - teor teor2345 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 7 00:56:26 UTC 2015


> On 7 Dec 2015, at 09:39, ajs124 <tor at ajs124.de> wrote:
> 
> Hey,
> 
> the easiest solution that comes to mind is a cronjob/systemd timer/whatever that modifies the config file and sends a SIGHUP to tor to trigger a config reload.
> 
> I'm not very familiar with the codebase, so I can't guarantee that reloading the config file applies new (Relay)BandwithRate settings, but from the glances I took at the code it does seem like it should do it.
> Please someone verify or falsify this claim.

Reloading the config file changes all the settings.
For the few settings where it doesn't, tor will warn you, or refuse to reload the config.

> 
> ajs124
> 
> On Sun, 6 Dec 2015 21:38:05 +0100
> Zalezny Niezalezny <zalezny.niezalezny at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> this is my first post on this list so warm welcome to every one a specialy
>> to Tor developers.
>> 
>> On my servers I`m running paralllel prod servers with tor relays on the
>> separate IP.
>> I`m supporting tor network for free with high speed tor relays but I need
>> to customize the time when my server will share 100% of its resources for
>> tor and when traffic will be limited.
>> 
>> 
>> Is it possible to schedule the time when bandwith will looks as follow:
>> 
>> 8:00 - 18:00 - Tor relay bandwith 250kb/s
>> 
>> 18:00 - 8:00 - Tor relay bandwith 10 000kb/s
>> 
>> 
>> How may I schedule this in tor relay ? Is it possible to limit traffic on
>> the client or I need to do it on my firewall ?
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for any feedback.
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