On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 00:02 +1000, glymr wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any information about how to > do this, but the last two modem/routers I have used for my dsl > connection have both had linux software running them... I was just > reading today about the netcomm nb5, which is my current modem, it can > apparently have new software put on it and all sorts of neat things like > that. It'd be an interesting project to see happen, add a basic tor > client to the standard flash image of several common routers that this > could be done for. > > The only problem I am thinking may crop up is that, as it appears right > now, my netcomm nb5 seems to be crashing after some amount of time > running really quite a minimal tor server on the network behind it. It's > happened three times now but I'm not sure what is causing it. I have > changed the 'throttle' to full out on my ISP, I think possibly giving > the modem more available bandwidth may fix the problem by unclogging the > buffers... I'll see I suppose... gonna be a bit annoyed if I can't run > tor through it... :( > > Well, speak of the devil and he shall appear. Just as I am trying to > send this email the modem has gone dumb again. I wonder if turning off > QoS might help. In fact I'll just turn off everything unneccessary, > maybe that will free up some memory to give it stability... I'm doubtful > though. > > Any suggestions on how to get the router to not go spaz while running > tor would be greatly appreciated Buy a real appliance as i.e. a soekris or a via, forget cheaop router that always are starving of ram & cpu; load a real os as i.e. debian, save your time and enjoy life .... ;) -- Marco A. Calamari <marcoc1@xxxxxxx>
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