From c173c4724973fff0fc0d878bc85db2cfc347300f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roger Dingledine
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 18:01:36 +0000
Subject: move the 'other things to note' list into #client-or-server so
#server docs are less cluttered.
svn:r3246
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@@ -120,6 +120,33 @@ gives users more robustness against curious telcos and brute force
attacks.
+Other things to note:
+
+- 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 the FAQ
+for details.
+- 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.
+- 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, even
+better.)
+- 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.
+
+
+
You can read more about setting up Tor as a
server below.
@@ -207,34 +234,9 @@ service url).
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!
-
-
-Other things to note:
-
-- 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 the FAQ
-for details.
-- 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.
-- 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, even
-better.)
-- 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.
-
+yet. Otherwise, please help out! (If you want to read more about whether
+you should be a server, check out the
+section above.
To set up a Tor server, do the following steps after installing Tor.
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