[tor-relays] Does Setting Up a Bridge Relay Disable the Browser?

[Zack Weinberg]

On 09/07/2015 01:07 PM, Kenneth Freeman wrote:
> On 09/07/2015 12:18 AM, Billy Humphreys wrote:
>> Well, people suggest that, unless you give <100KB/s, you should
>> run a relay, not a bridge, as more relays are used (and we have
>> Tor weather and such). You should be using Tor's daemon (apt-get
>> install tor tor-arm) for the relay or bridge itself. -Poke
> 
> I shall try this. If I have the bandwidth I'll run two relays, but
> for now I'd like to run a relay and a bridge relay.

The whole point of a bridge is to provide access to Tor for people
whose networks blacklist all normal relays, and those networks
normally do that by IP address.  Therefore, bridges need to not be on
the same IP address as a normal relay.  Even being in the same /24 can
be problematic, IIUC.

zw