Re: JanusPA - A hardware Privacy Adapter using Tor

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Subject: Re: JanusPA - A hardware Privacy Adapter using Tor

From: "Kyle Williams" <kyle.kwilliams@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:58:14 -0800

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I'm curious as to how well it performed. How much RAM and CPU did the Linksys WRT54G have?

I was worried that the linksys/netgear/dlink brands would not be that fast. I could be wrong though...

Ah, so it did run out of memory. That's one of the two major problems I thought would happen with a "brand name" router.

I ran a Tor server for about 3 to 4 days to try and get a good baseline of performance. Do you have any performance stats?

If so, I would love to see them.

- Kyle

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 7:00 AM, dante <dante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Kyle,

Very nice work.

You might be interested in something I did a little while ago. I got a
tor server running on a wireless Linksys WRT54g router. This allows me
to use tor at home with my laptops wirelessly.

Here's a quick howto since I never published on my site:

1) Get a MIPS I (little endian) environment up. I used qemu and
installed debian-mipsel. I started with the ramdisk image
mipsel-test-0.2.tar.gz from http://bellard.org/qemu/download.html and
bootstrapped into a fully functional debian system.

2) I compiled tor statically linked. (CFLAGS="-static" ./configure)

3) I got into my linksys using "Linux on WRTG54g" ...
http://www.batbox.org/wrt54g-linux.html

4) I used ftpget to upload tor, configure and start it up.

It works fine, but you run out of memory fast because you have to use
ramdisk to store tor's cache files.

Tony Basile
http://opensource.dyc.edu

Kyle Williams wrote:
> If anyone is seriously thinking about a good hardware based solution for
> Tor, I'd buy the gumstix now. In fact, I just bought a couple more just in
> case mine breaks. I'll have the source code up withing a week, two tops The
> FULL documentation will take about a bit longer to get done.
>
> Well, that's about it. Feedback is welcome.
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Kyle
>
> PS. Happy Holidays!
>
>