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