Hi George,
At some point, I want to get a few network-heavy FreeBSD involved in optimizing Tor on FreeBSD. It should not take a lot to do, since the networking stack is optimized out of the box, but my FreeBSD nodes never hit much more than 10mbps.
I hope you get to optimize high-bandwidth Tor on FreeBSD as well. I would love to have this as well. I can also help as well.
About the slow relays, looking at your company website (http://queair.net/hardware.html), you appear to be a fan of low-power hardware like Alix or ARM boards (RPI, BeagleBone) and believe you run relays on these. I could be wrong, as it could also be your ISP. If the cause is low-power hardware, I'm not against low power development boards, I just feel that for Tor they're more for low-bandwidth relays (e.g. bridges or relays on slower connections).
One of those devs lives close to both you and I :)
Sounds great.
Keep us in the loop on the relay and any customizations you're doing.
OK, I will. When I get to setting up the server, I will post an article to my website (https://www.neelc.org) and a copy of the article here (@tor-relays).
Thanks,
Neel Chauhan
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