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Re: [tor-relays] Running gigabit relay



Its 2019. Doesn’t matter anymore. Get whatever network card you want and some i5/i7 or something AMD.
(CPUs support AES in ASICS since 2011)

> On 26. Jul 2019, at 07:31, Mitar <mmitar@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg14159.html
> [2] https://www.torservers.net/wiki/setup/server
> 
> 
> Mitar
> 
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