Tor appliance

Joel Franusic jfranusic at gmail.com
Mon Sep 25 23:10:14 UTC 2006


This just showed up on Digg:

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2860172381.html

On 9/23/06, Marco A. Calamari <marcoc1 at dada.it> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 00:02 +1000, glymr wrote:
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> > Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any information about how to
> > do this, but the last two modem/routers I have used for my dsl
> > connection have both had linux software running them... I was just
> > reading today about the netcomm nb5, which is my current modem, it can
> > apparently have new software put on it and all sorts of neat things like
> > that. It'd be an interesting project to see happen, add a basic tor
> > client to the standard flash image of several common routers that this
> > could be done for.
> >
> > The only problem I am thinking may crop up is that, as it appears right
> > now, my netcomm nb5 seems to be crashing after some amount of time
> > running really quite a minimal tor server on the network behind it. It's
> > happened three times now but I'm not sure what is causing it. I have
> > changed the 'throttle' to full out on my ISP, I think possibly giving
> > the modem more available bandwidth may fix the problem by unclogging the
> > buffers... I'll see I suppose... gonna be a bit annoyed if I can't run
> > tor through it... :(
> >
> > Well, speak of the devil and he shall appear. Just as I am trying to
> > send this email the modem has gone dumb again. I wonder if turning off
> > QoS might help. In fact I'll just turn off everything unneccessary,
> > maybe that will free up some memory to give it stability... I'm doubtful
> > though.
> >
> > Any suggestions on how to get the router to not go spaz while running
> > tor would be greatly appreciated
>
> Buy a real appliance as i.e. a soekris or a via, forget cheaop router
>  that always are starving of ram & cpu; load a real os as
>  i.e. debian, save your time and enjoy life ....
>
> ;)
>
> --
> Marco A. Calamari <marcoc1 at dada.it>
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