[tor-relays] Running gigabit relay

[Mitar]

Hi!

I have deployed it:

https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/567E9785458C605E59202755C74898E3C96FB1CC

On gigabit fiber, using this NUC:

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/126140/intel-nuc-kit-nuc8i7beh.html

Now I just have to wait for traffic to build-up to see if it can
really achieve gigabit. Is there any way to speed this process up? Is
there anyone who would like to do some circuits through the node to
exercise its bandwidth a bit?


Mitar

On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 10:31 PM Mitar <mmitar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I have Sonic Fiber which offers gigabit symmetric connection. I am
> thinking of using it for gigabit Tor relay, but I wonder what would be
> good hardware to use for something like that. Information I have found
> [1] is from 2010 so I wonder if there are any updates? Is there any
> simple small box I could use? Like Intel NUC? Information here [2]
> says that one can get 400 Mbps with AES-NI. And so with two processes
> limit per my public IP this would be around 800 Mbps then. Is this
> still a reasonable expectation? Do I have to care about the network
> card to serve gigabit (besides its being nominally gigabit)? What
> would be memory requirements for such a device?
>
> [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/or-talk@freehaven.net/msg14159.html
> [2] https://www.torservers.net/wiki/setup/server
>
>
> Mitar
>
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