[tor-relays] RPi Relay Maximum Speed

[Tristan]

Last I heard, the Raspberry Pi was only capable of 100Mbps because the
ethernet port is on the same bus as the USB ports, and the chipset used
only supports 100Mbps. I could be wrong though.

On Oct 12, 2016 7:42 AM, "Markus Koch" <niftybunny at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Everyone should have full duplex by now.
>
> So he has 200 mbit on a fast ethernet port.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 12 Oct 2016, at 14:20, Tristan <supersluether at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Remember, a relay has to download and upload as well, so your 100Mbps link
> would really only be able to _relay_ at 50Mbps anyway.
>
> On Oct 12, 2016 4:17 AM, "Farid Joubbi" <joubbi at kth.se> wrote:
>
>> The hardware in your raspberry is way too weak to be able to push 100
>> Mbit/s.
>>
>> My guess is that Atlas will show somewhere just below 1 MByte for your
>> relay.
>>
>>
>> I have tried to find cost effective hardware for a relay that is able to
>> push around 100 Mbit/s. All the options I have looked at turned out to be a
>> bit too expensive for my taste (and wallet). Either the initial cost or the
>> energy usage is too high for such hardware for my purposes.
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* tor-relays <tor-relays-bounces at lists.torproject.org> on behalf
>> of Volker Mink <volker.mink at gmx.de>
>> *Sent:* 12 October 2016 09:09
>> *To:* tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
>> *Subject:* Re: [tor-relays] RPi Relay Maximum Speed
>>
>> So the best would be to use two raspis or your old gaming-workstation -
>> depends on the costs for energy
>>
>> *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 12. Oktober 2016 um 07:55 Uhr
>> *Von:* "Roman Mamedov" <rm at romanrm.net>
>> *An:* Manny <felich at posteo.de>
>> *Cc:* "Tor relays" <tor-relays at lists.torproject.org>
>> *Betreff:* Re: [tor-relays] RPi Relay Maximum Speed
>> On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 07:18:56 +0200
>> Manny <felich at posteo.de> wrote:
>>
>> > I have a 1gbit symmetric connection at home and would like to donate
>> > 100mbit with my raspberry pi 3 model b. Since it has a 100mbit Network
>> > Interface, I'm limited to that anyways.
>> >
>> > What Settings do I Need in my torcc to get the Maximum Speed? At the
>> > Moment I entered 12 Mbytes - which Shows up at 96 mb/s in Arm - is that
>> > correct and my understanding of things is just the opposite?
>> > Max Speed, I think, should be 12.7mb/s for a 100mbit Connection?
>>
>> mb is not a thing that exists;
>> Mb is megabits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabit
>> MB is megabytes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte
>>
>> What you entered in torrc is currently correct. But since your board has
>> a 100
>> Mbit interface anyway, it would be better if you just omit the bandwidth
>> limit
>> line entirely.
>>
>> Also, actually hit anything remotely close to 100 Mbit, you'll absolutely
>> have
>> to run two instances of Tor. The Raspberry Pi 3 has 4 CPU cores, but each
>> core
>> on its own is not very fast. One copy of Tor only uses about 1 to 1.3
>> cores,
>> so to fully utilize your hardware you need more than one. Ideally you'd
>> set up
>> four, but the Tor network will only accept two running from the same IPv4
>> address. It appears that these days there's a built-in script for that,
>> see
>> "man tor-instance-create".
>>
>> --
>> With respect,
>> Roman
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