Re: Tor and bandwidth consumption... part 2

[Matt Thorne <mlthorne@xxxxxxxxx>]

that is a relief. I didn't want to help create something that would not be good for a system like this. I was thinking that if It got to a level where we do have a huge number of torpark users, then we could branch the torpark people off to useing only torpark servers. But that isn't a very realistic idea, as it would require a huge number of people online at any one time. but who knows, maybe something to watch.

On 10/11/05, Martin Balvers <m.balvers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The connection will time-out, and the client will build another circuit
for the connection. Tor is designed to handle servers that suddenly
disappear.

As for bandwidth, how many clients do you think there are now? And home
much impact will a couple of Torpark clients have?
Personaly, I don't think the Tor network will notice the difference.
The biggest bandwith problem at the momen (an probably in the future) is
p2p traffic routed through Tor. You can see the effect right now, Tor is
almost not usable anymore because it is used for p2p traffic.

Martin


> and as I think more, what happens to the people who are using the portable
> server when it is time to unplug the server. How baddly would that mess
> with
> tor if one of the servers you were using dissapeared. Would tor just
> recircut?
>  is there some way to send a I am exiting, choose a different circut
> warning?
>
>  On 10/10/05, Matt Thorne <mlthorne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> for normal consumption I don't know. but What happens when yea old
>> chinese
>> dissident pops up behind the great firewall . One would have to hope
>> that he
>> wasn't an exit node. would probably work as a middleman though...
>>
>> On 10/10/05, Arrakis Tor <arrakistor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > I am still concerned with Torparks users bogging down the Tor exit
>> > nodes.
>> >
>> > Did anyone have any ideas if 30 minute to 5 hour bursts of thousands
>> > of exit servers winking in and out of the tor network would be of any
>> > use? Does the directory protocol need to be ammended to take advantage
>> > of Torpark servers, if I create server editions?
>> >
>> > ST
>> >
>>
>>
>


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