Tor relay or some other use for useless internet connection

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Hey all,

I have one ~12/12Mbit internet connection that used to be torrent ‘server’, now I’m trying to think of some bit less illegal use for it. :stuck_out_tongue:

Only thing I can think of is running a tor relay, I installed tor+vidalia for winxp but it didn’t work well, after several hours of configuring it i noticed “problems with win xp” in patch notes. Well, tor website seems to have instructions for several linux distros, so I pick opensuse.

After installing openSuse i went back to:(https://www.torproject.org/docs/rpms.html.en), but it seems that server doesn’t have rpm for opensuse. At this point I’m starting to get slightly annoyed by tor.

Thus I decide to write here (tor doesn’t have forum).

Is there reasonably easy way to get tor server running on opensuse OR can someone think some other use for not needed bandwidth?

My linux experience is around ~24hours so I’d rather not try compiling the code. :stuck_out_tongue:

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On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:36:03 +0000, seegge wrote:

> Is there reasonably easy way to get tor server running on opensuse OR
> can someone think some other use for not needed bandwidth?

Welcome!

Try searching http://software.opensuse.org/search - tor is available in
an additional repository, and should be fairly easy to set up once
installed.

Jim

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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
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Tor users correspond through mailing lists,

In particular, note the tor-relays list.

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[quote="hendersj

Try searching [software.opensuse.org: Search"]
(http://software.opensuse.org/search) - tor is available in
an additional repository, and should be fairly easy to set up once
installed.

[/quote]

Ok, thanks, found tor and vidalia (gui). They should be running now:

seegge@linux-fvye:~> netstat -atun
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:9030 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:9001 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN

And I edited (etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2):

FW_SERVICES_EXT_TCP=“9001 9030”

Is that correct way to open those ports for this purpose?

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On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:26:03 +0000, seegge wrote:

> Is that correct way to open those ports for this purpose?

I would use the YaST firewall configuration to make sure it’s done
properly. :slight_smile:

Jim

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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C

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Hello,

I went to
https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en

from where I downloaded Tor Browser Bundle for Linux as:
tor-browser-gnu-linux-i686-2.2.38-1-dev-en-US.tar.gz

I extracted it, by Ark as example, and placed the directories and the file.
Just calling the file ’ start-tor-browser ’ and Tor runs.

I hope that is enough, because my knowledge simple ends there. :slight_smile:
Good look,

Pablo Vegezzi

Desktop: OpenSUSE 12.1 ; x86_32 ; KDE 4.7.2
on Dell Dimension E520 ; Intel Core2 1.86GHz ; 6 RAM

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palp56 [Pablo]
What a nice way to do things! A single tarball, unpack wherever you want to and just launch it. Notice that the bundled vidalia control panel that pops up has a button “Setup Relaying” that makes it all very easy with different levels of involvement.