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+ o Documentation:
+ - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or DNS.
+ Closes ticket 17170.
diff --git a/doc/tor.1.txt b/doc/tor.1.txt
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@@ -185,6 +185,9 @@ GENERAL OPTIONS
course, more is better; we recommend at least 250 KBytes (2 mbits) if
possible. (Default: 1 GByte) +
+
+ Note that this option, and other bandwidth-limiting options, apply to TCP
+ data only: They do not count TCP headers or DNS traffic. +
+ +
With this option, and in other options that take arguments in bytes,
KBytes, and so on, other formats are also supported. Notably, "KBytes" can
also be written as "kilobytes" or "kb"; "MBytes" can be written as