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Re: [tor-relays] sharing tor relay at night or working hours ? make sense ?



Hi,

thanks for Your reply.

I thought about it, the best solution for me will be to change Bandwith settings during working hours using crontab.

I will prepare two separate configuration files with different Bandwidth settings and using it, two times per day cronjob will increase/decrease bandwith for TOR.
This should be the best solution in that case.


ok , if I will replace configuration file with the new settings, do I need to reload or restart my tor node ?
I do not want to loose my active connections. How to do it properly ?


Cheers

Zalezny





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On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 7:55 AM, Paul M Furley <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Zalezny,

On 11/06/17 15:29, Zalezny Niezalezny wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 100mbit Up/Down connection at home. Most of the day, my
> connection is not use. Mostly between 22:00-17:00.
>
> I would like to share my Internet connection for Tor. If I will setup
> some crontabs to start/stop my tor relay between that hours, will it
> work ?  Does it make sense ? Will TOR network know that my relay is
> working only between 22:00 and 17:00 and will push some more traffic to me ?
>
> How to properly configure such a relay which is working only for a few
> hours per day ?

Rather than starting & killing Tor with crontabs, I think you can use
AccountingStart and AccountingMax config settings to achieve this.

https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual-dev.html.en

That way you can get Tor to *start* at the right time (with
AccountingStart) - the only issue I can see is getting it to stop at the
right time.

AccountingMax will stop Tor when the number of *bytes* has been reached,
so if your line was being used flat out, this would be easy to calculate
based on the your line's data rate.

You might need to have a play with a low AccountingMax setting and see
what happens. When you first launch a relay it won't get much traffic
but it will gradually increase over the coming weeks.

Cheers,

Paul


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