[tor-relays] sharing tor relay at night or working hours ? make sense ?

[Zalezny Niezalezny]

Hi,

thanks for Your reply.

I thought about it, the best solution for me will be to change Bandwith
settings during working hours using crontab.

I will prepare two separate configuration files with different Bandwidth
settings and using it, two times per day cronjob will increase/decrease
bandwith for TOR.
This should be the best solution in that case.


ok , if I will replace configuration file with the new settings, do I need
to reload or restart my tor node ?
I do not want to loose my active connections. How to do it properly ?


Cheers

Zalezny





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On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 7:55 AM, Paul M Furley <paul at paulfurley.com> wrote:

> Hi Zalezny,
>
> On 11/06/17 15:29, Zalezny Niezalezny wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have 100mbit Up/Down connection at home. Most of the day, my
> > connection is not use. Mostly between 22:00-17:00.
> >
> > I would like to share my Internet connection for Tor. If I will setup
> > some crontabs to start/stop my tor relay between that hours, will it
> > work ?  Does it make sense ? Will TOR network know that my relay is
> > working only between 22:00 and 17:00 and will push some more traffic to
> me ?
> >
> > How to properly configure such a relay which is working only for a few
> > hours per day ?
>
> Rather than starting & killing Tor with crontabs, I think you can use
> AccountingStart and AccountingMax config settings to achieve this.
>
> https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual-dev.html.en
>
> That way you can get Tor to *start* at the right time (with
> AccountingStart) - the only issue I can see is getting it to stop at the
> right time.
>
> AccountingMax will stop Tor when the number of *bytes* has been reached,
> so if your line was being used flat out, this would be easy to calculate
> based on the your line's data rate.
>
> You might need to have a play with a low AccountingMax setting and see
> what happens. When you first launch a relay it won't get much traffic
> but it will gradually increase over the coming weeks.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul
>
>
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