Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

[Duncan Guthrie <dguthrie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/12/16 21:10, SuperSluether wrote:
> I don't know the actual numbers for the Raspberry Pi 1, I was just 
> quoting from Duncan: 
> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2016-December/011182.html

I was told this figure by a friend who tried networking "stuff" on a Pi. 
From personal experience also, I have found they are just a bit rubbish, 
other than for using a probe for OONI, and for a short time using it to 
try out NetBSD and various other operating systems.

My original figure may have been... somewhat off. With different models 
they may have updated the network hardware. Certainly on the new ones 
they are better, but there are deeper flaws with the Raspberry Pi's 
hardware, e.g. the omnipotent GPU blob and various other proprietary 
parts that make supporting it non-trivial compared to say, the 
BeagleBone Black.

A more general point is that old desktop computers still offer better 
performance than a Raspberry Pi. You can easily get one for considerably 
less than the cost of a Pi, and there are also issues of network 
diversity with the Raspberry Pi - if some flaw was exploited in the 
various nasty proprietary bits that make up the Pi, much of the network 
might be compromised - due to large similarities across the different 
models, this would affect considerable numbers of devices. So using many 
different computer models with a large variety of operating systems is 
ideal for the network as a whole.

Duncan
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