[tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

SuperSluether supersluether at gmail.com
Tue Dec 6 21:10:05 UTC 2016


I don't know the actual numbers for the Raspberry Pi 1, I was just 
quoting from Duncan: 
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2016-December/011182.html


On 12/06/2016 03:00 PM, diffusae wrote:
> Well, I can read and also now the translation from Bits to Bytes.
> But I am not sure about your value of the maximum network capacity.
>
> That's the iperf3 measurement of a Raspberry Pi 1 Model B+:
>
> [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
> [  4]   0.00-10.00  sec  83.6 MBytes  8.36 MBytes/sec  141
> sender
> [  4]   0.00-10.00  sec  83.1 MBytes  8.31 MBytes/sec
> receiver
>
> Also arm shows me an average of 9 MB/s.
>
> Maybe they have change the USB LAN chip?
>
> Regards,
>
> On 06.12.2016 19:20, Tristan wrote:
>> Again, bits or bytes. I can't believe I'm repeating myself, don't you
>> people read?
>>
>> The ORIGINAL (version 1) Raspberry Pi had a max of 1 MegaBYTE.
>>
>> 1 MegaBYTE = 8 megaBITS
>>
>> Obviously other factors limit performance, but looking at just the
>> maximum network capacity of a Raspberry Pi 1, it could handle 8Mbit/s.
>>
>>
>> On Dec 6, 2016 11:16 AM, "Rana" <ranaventures at gmail.com
>> <mailto:ranaventures at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>      -----Original Message-----
>>      From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-bounces at lists.torproject.org
>>      <mailto:tor-relays-bounces at lists.torproject.org>] On Behalf Of pa011
>>      Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 1:24 AM
>>      To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
>>      <mailto:tor-relays at lists.torproject.org>
>>      Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with
>>      dynamic IP
>>
>>
>>      > I would like to hear about ONE Raspi Tor operator who was allowed
>>      by DirAuths (or bwauths or whatever)  to come even near 1 mbit/s
>>      bandwidth utilization
>>      >
>>
>>      let me tell:
>>      https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/AA44C4BE3C90DCAAC09E5CD26150710AAA80D58B
>>      <https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/AA44C4BE3C90DCAAC09E5CD26150710AAA80D58B>
>>      https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/CA9A5D5C4688F04EEC1AF810B0FD348109FA17FB
>>      <https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/CA9A5D5C4688F04EEC1AF810B0FD348109FA17FB>
>>
>>      are sharing the same dynamic IP on a Rasp2 -cut every 24 hours
>>
>>               day         rx      |     tx      |    total    |   avg. rate
>>         
>>       ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
>>           05.12.2016    27,20 GiB |   28,39 GiB |   55,59 GiB |    5,40
>>      Mbit/s
>>
>>
>>      that is slight above 1 Mbit/s  :-)
>>
>>
>>      Best regards
>>
>>      Paul
>>      ----------------------------
>>
>>      Wow nice bandwidth you are pushing through Paul! You mean two Raspi
>>      2's sharing an Internet connection, each relaying 27 Gbytes per day
>>      at 5.4 Mbit/s on the average?? Total 10.8 Mbit/s?? Or 2.7 Mbit/s each?
>>
>>      Definitely refutes the previously claimed 1 Mbit/s Tor limit on
>>      Raspi, and means that Raspi has nothing to do with the ridiculously
>>      low utilization of my relay, just as I thought. As a matter of fact
>>      this means that whoever is NOT running a relay on a Raspi  (or two,
>>      or four of them) is wasting money, unless he has a computer lying
>>      about with nothing better to do.
>>
>>      Also, what's the max memory and CPU utilization on your Raspi (I
>>      have read somewhere that Tor is only capable of utilizing 2 of the 4
>>      CPU cores), and what kind of Internet connection do you have?
>>
>>       BTW the $35 Raspi 3 has 33% more CPU power than your Raspi 2 and
>>      the same amount of memory.
>>
>>      Rana
>>
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