[tor-talk] Connections to the same circuit? Make them different?

adrelanos adrelanos at riseup.net
Wed Aug 1 21:30:20 UTC 2012


Daniel Dennis:
> While prototyping an app i was looking at ip addresses and
> connections. I notice all my connections uses the same circuit and
> have the same IP Address. Then it hit me, it just may be because i
> am using one proxy (silly thought, proxies shouldnt affect
> circuits) so i tried making two proxies. Well anyways I tried
> visiting two different sites every few seconds so i can watch their
> connection in vidalia and i see they still use the same circuit and
> the many others are idle.
> 
> Is there some way i can say use a different circuit? or do not use
> this circuit for the next little while?
> 

Yes, use stream isolation. Use Tor 0.2.3 and have a look into the Tor
dev manual (not checked if they updated the stable manual).

Short: different socks passwords or different Socks- (Trans-, Dns-)
Ports will and [see manual] will enforce using different circuits.


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