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author | Roger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org> | 2005-01-03 18:01:36 +0000 |
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committer | Roger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org> | 2005-01-03 18:01:36 +0000 |
commit | c173c4724973fff0fc0d878bc85db2cfc347300f (patch) | |
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move the 'other things to note' list into #client-or-server so
#server docs are less cluttered.
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diff --git a/doc/tor-doc.html b/doc/tor-doc.html index 1f8d3ec953..7f3866ec3d 100644 --- a/doc/tor-doc.html +++ b/doc/tor-doc.html @@ -120,6 +120,33 @@ gives users more robustness against curious telcos and brute force attacks. </ul> +<p>Other things to note: +<ul> +<li>Tor has built-in support for rate limiting; see BandwidthRate +and BandwidthBurst config options. Further, if you have +lots of capacity but don't want to spend that many bytes per +month, check out the Accounting and Hibernation features. See <a +href="http://wiki.noreply.org/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ">the FAQ</a> +for details.</li> +<li>It's fine if the server goes offline sometimes. The directories +notice this quickly and stop advertising the server. Just try to make +sure it's not too often, since connections using the server when it +disconnects will break.</li> +<li>We can handle servers with dynamic IPs just fine, as long as the +server itself knows its IP. If your server is behind a NAT and it doesn't +know its public IP (e.g. it has an IP of 192.168.x.y), then we can't use it +as a server yet. (If you want to port forward and set your Address +config option to use dyndns DNS voodoo to get around this, feel free. If +you write a howto, <a href="mailto:tor-volunteer@freehaven.net">even +better</a>.)</li> +<li>Your server will passively estimate and advertise its recent +bandwidth capacity. +Clients choose paths weighted by this capacity, so high-bandwidth +servers will attract more paths than low-bandwidth ones. That's why +having even low-bandwidth servers is useful too.</li> +</ul> +</p> + <p>You can read more about setting up Tor as a server <a href="#server">below</a>.</p> @@ -207,34 +234,9 @@ service url</a>).</p> <p>We're looking for people with reasonably reliable Internet connections, that have at least 20 kilobytes/s each way. If you frequently have a lot of packet loss or really high latency, we can't handle your server -yet. Otherwise, please help out! -</p> - -<p>Other things to note: -<ul> -<li>Tor has built-in support for rate limiting; see BandwidthRate -and BandwidthBurst config options. Further, if you have -lots of capacity but don't want to spend that many bytes per -month, check out the Accounting and Hibernation features. See <a -href="http://wiki.noreply.org/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ">the FAQ</a> -for details.</li> -<li>It's fine if the server goes offline sometimes. The directories -notice this quickly and stop advertising the server. Just try to make -sure it's not too often, since connections using the server when it -disconnects will break.</li> -<li>We can handle servers with dynamic IPs just fine, as long as the -server itself knows its IP. If your server is behind a NAT and it doesn't -know its public IP (e.g. it has an IP of 192.168.x.y), then we can't use it -as a server yet. (If you want to port forward and set your Address -config option to use dyndns DNS voodoo to get around this, feel free. If -you write a howto, <a href="mailto:tor-volunteer@freehaven.net">even -better</a>.)</li> -<li>Your server will passively estimate and advertise its recent -bandwidth capacity. -Clients choose paths weighted by this capacity, so high-bandwidth -servers will attract more paths than low-bandwidth ones. That's why -having even low-bandwidth servers is useful too.</li> -</ul> +yet. Otherwise, please help out! (If you want to read more about whether +you should be a server, check out <a href="#client-or-server">the +section above</a>. </p> <p>To set up a Tor server, do the following steps after installing Tor. |