Hi!
I run an obfs4 bridge.
1) Why is the advertised bandwidth 56.72 KB/s when the relay is on a (shared) gigabit connection? According to my experiments it should be several MB/s.
2) Where can I submit my bridges to help people in Iran, China etc, besides the Tor BridgeDB?
Kind regards Tor-node.net
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Hi!
I run an obfs4 bridge.
- Why is the advertised bandwidth 56.72 KB/s when the relay is on a
(shared) gigabit connection? According to my experiments it should be several MB/s.
- Where can I submit my bridges to help people in Iran, China etc, besides
the Tor BridgeDB?
Kind regards Tor-node.net
Hey,
Thanks for running an obfs4 bridge!
To answer (1), we don't have any mechanism for measuring bridge bandwidth. We don't even yet have a design for this, as there are several unsolved problems pertaining to running the bandwidth tests in a manner which does not immediately signal to a censor that the server is a bridge relay, before the bridge is even used by a client. More research on idea methods for conducting bridge bandwidth tests would be most welcome.
For (2), there isn't anywhere else, as far as I know. If you have friends in those places who use Tor, you could simply give the bridge line to them. It would be really neat if there were other BridgeDB-like things for distributing censorship circumvention information (and not just for Tor bridges).
Best regards,
On 08/04/2016 05:04 PM, isis agora lovecruft wrote:
Thanks for running an obfs4 bridge!
Which reminds me... I run an obfs6 bridge, the current status of which is "Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 2 days 0:00 hours, with 0 circuits open. I've sent 1.19 MB and received 23.27 MB," so presumably it's doing some non-flashy good. I'd like to be able to see more of what it's doing, if not to direct its activity, but that said plain vanilla bridges are good too!
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