Binding Tor to Pseudo-Interface

[Tom Hek]

On Feb 23, 2008, at 20:33 PM, Jonathan Addington wrote:

> I've been running a Tor exit node on and off for awhile now and my
> biggest problem has always been bandwidth limiting. I finally
> installed a firmware on my router with relatively advanced QoS on. It
> works pretty well most of the time, but to optimize it, I need to be
> able to isolate *all* Tor traffic. Because I use the same computer for
> other purposes, I can't just deprioritize its traffic, so I created a
> pseudo-interface for the QoS to filter on.
>
> My remaining problem is that while Tor listens and responds to other
> Tor clients via this pseudo-interface (and hence different IP) it
> still fetches information as an exit node from the
> non-pseudo-interface, making it much more difficult to filter (I don't
> want to deprioritize *my* web-browsing as well!).
>
> Is there a way to bind Tor so that it *only* uses the pseudo- 
> interface?
>
> -madjon
>

Put this in your tor config file:

OutboundBindAddress *IP*

Substitute *IP* with the IP of the interface you want Tor to use for  
the outbound connections. All the traffic will now flow over that  
interface ;)

-Tom