Re: Tame circuits

[Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 03:11:47PM -0700, Mr. Blue wrote:
> Is there a way to completely stop a Tor from building circuits?!
> __DisablePredictedCircuits isn't achiving that, as in a middle of some
>progress Tor will sometimes, arbitrally build 2 or more random circuits
>AND USE THEM for my stream.
> PS: I AM aware of stream control and it's __, but wana avoid using it,
>because of overhead.

Section 5.4 of control-spec.txt:

  __LeaveStreamsUnattached

    If true, Tor will not automatically attach new streams to circuits;
    instead, the controller must attach them with ATTACHSTREAM.  If the
    controller does not attach the streams, their data will never be routed.

Setting that to 1 will prevent Tor from building a circuit in response
to a socks request. (Setting __DisablePredictedCircuits will prevent
Tor from building circuits beforehand in anticipation of socks requests.)

As for overhead, if you want to control circuits, this is how you do it.
Unless you can suggest a better way.

--Roger

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