[tor-relays] Tor Relay On Pfsense 2.3.3-RELEASE-p1 (amd64)

[George]

Tyler Johnson:
> On 3/28/17, Edwin Garzón <edwingarzon10 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all.
>> Need you help,
>> I have pfsense *2.3.3-RELEASE-p1* (amd64) and > pkg install tor:
>> pkg: No packages available to install matching 'tor' have been found in the
>> repositories
>>
>> I want to install a Tor relay
>>
>> Thank
>>
> 
> A quick googling shows me that perhaps Tor isn't supported on pfsense [1].
> 
> Therefore, you may have to follow this how-to: Running the Tor client
> on Linux/BSD/Unix [2]
> 
> [1] https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=10143.0
> 
> [2] https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-unix.html.en

Way back I did start creating a Tor port for pfSense and left it in XML
hell, but I'm sure there's a way to install on it still.  I'm not
familiar with how pfSense packaging is done now, but it should be easy
enough. There is a ports tree in
https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/, but security/tor doesn't seem
to be there.

I tend to think that a system built for the purpose of being a
firewall/packet filter should stick with its intentions. There's a
tendency with open source projects to morph away from their original
purpose, and ultimately do lots of things, and none of the correctly.

Although there is a case to make a firewall system that with many
hundreds of thousands to also act as a Tor relay or bridge.

Note that the current pfSense 2.3.3 is based on FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE,
when it probably makes more sense to run a fresh relay on the 11.x branch.

Instead of expending effort on getting Tor running on pfSense, I'd
recommend just running a FreeBSD relay with the sole purpose of being a
Tor relay.

g


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