Re: [tor-relays] FW: Relay unreachable by authorities (Was:Re:Questiononrelay allowed downtime)

There are no warnings with the tor software regarding the maximum network connections. Perhaps it is my router (A Netgear Orbi Wifi Router, all wireless);. I’ve noticed that my router does sometimes drop my connection then bring it back randomly so you might be right.

According to my research https://kb.netgear.com/31097/How-many-devices-can-my-Orbi-system-support

, the orbi router does have a maximum amount of devices it allows to be using it’s connection at once, depending on what they are using it for. I am wondering, how could I edit my torrc to only allow the number of connections my router would allow and still eventually gain respectable status?

Thank you.

From: teor
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2018 4:24 PM
To: tor-relays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [tor-relays] FW: Relay unreachable by authorities (Was:Re:Questiononrelay allowed downtime)

On 27 Apr 2018, at 09:09, Keifer Bly <keifer.bly@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

That’s what’s strange. I have double checked the tor logs and the only warning that appears is the “tor cannot help you if you use it wrong” warning; that’s the only one that appears.

Then the problem is probably with your router or ISP.

I did some research, and according to
https://serverfault.com/questions/145907/does-mac-os-x-throttle-the-rate-of-socket-creation, Mac os does have a maximum amount of network connections it does allow at once.
To find mine out, I tried running this in terminal
Launchctl limit maxfiles
The return was this:
maxfiles 256 unlimited.

These are the soft and hard limits.

I tried attaching a photo of the output but got a message back saying it was held because it was too big (the file was about 6mb).

You can copy and paste text from the terminal.

I wonder if this would mean mac os only allows 256 connections at once?

Tor increases the file limit when it starts up.

If it fails, it logs a warning.

If the limit is too low, it logs a warning.

You don't see any warnings, therefore the problem isn't on your machine.

How could I modify my torrc file to not go over the max allowed connections by mac os and still be a useable relay?

You do not need to limit the number of connections.

You can not modify your torrc file to limit the number of connections.

The problem is probably with your router or ISP.

That's not really something we can help with.

Perhaps you should run a bridge rather than a relay.

Or get a better router.

Or run your relay remotely on a cheap VPS instead.