[NCLUG] Hosting a BeagleBone Tor Relay

[Quentin Hartman]

Yeah, just adding my experience. I did mail the Rpi there. I got in on the
"free Rpi hosting!" deal that one of the isp's over there did a couple
years ago.

I don't think it's bandwidth that has limited the utilization of your node
on Comcast. I have my node there rate limited to 200k sustained / 400k
burst (though it does have a 100Mb raw link) , and after a couple weeks of
ramp-up it was consistently moving multiple GB of data per day.

Also, fwiw, I use usb ethernet adpaters on build-farm computers at work and
the ones I have seem to work fine. They are certainly more reliable than
the onboard ones (in Mac Mini's) that would mysteriously just stop working
after a couple weeks of uptime.

QH

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Josh Datko <jbdatko at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 09:19 -0700, Quentin Hartman wrote:
> > I run a tor node on an Rpi in Amsterdam and it works well. I imagine one
> of
> > the new Rpi 2's, or even the zero if you happen to have a usb ethernet
> > adapter lying around could do it on the suuuuuuper cheap.
>
> Did you mail the Rpi there?
>
> While I have my doubts about an USB-to-Ethernet device, the issue is not
> the cost of the device, but access to a fast connection.
>
> At 1GHz/512MB RAM a relay will become bandwidth limited pretty quickly
> as in, it will mostly be idle and it will not gain traction in the tor
> consensus. At least, that was my experience when I ran the BBB for about
> a year on comcast.
>
> Ideally, I'll like to try this experiment on three devices, basically a
> small/med/large (BeagleBoard X-15 or Jetson).
>
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