Re: Best Hardware for TOR server..

[Scott Bennett <bennett@xxxxxxxxxx>]

     On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:37:48 -0500 Jay Goodman Tamboli <jay@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>On Dec 14, 2007, at 10:09:28, Michael Holstein wrote:
>
>>> all behind a  Linksys Firewall Router.
>>
>> This will be a problem. Cheap-o routers don't have enough memory to  
>> manage huge state tables.
>
>I haven't noticed any such problems with an Apple Airport Extreme  
>router.
>
>>>  My service provider will most likely be Comcast cable broadband.
>>
>> YMMV, but Comcrap will axe you if they know you're running servers,  
>> and they WILL know that if you decide to run an exit, because  
>> they'll get lots of complaints about it. I lost count of the number  
>> of complaints mine generated, but I still have copies of the various  
>> subpoenas I got (*).
>
>
>I've been running a server (phrenograph) on a Comcast connection in  
>the Washington, DC, area for a few months now, and I haven't heard  
>anything from Comcast about it.
>
     When I used Comcast, I ran tor first as a middleman and later as
an exit, but I've never allowed port 80 exits.  I allow 443 and scads
of others, but not 80.  Although it's probable that the most heavily
used port by tor exit traffic is port 80, it's also the one most likely
to bring the tor exit server operator complaints.  Leaving TCP port 80
open for exit service behind a Linksys router also means that the
Linksys NAT table overflow *will* happen very soon after the server's
descriptor starts getting distributed to clients. :-(


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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