on a Linux router/gateway after starting ‘tor’ I notice that tor immediately opens several connections.
(lsof -i shows several tor TCP ESTABLISHED).
Is this the normal behavoir ?
I did not find any hints about preemptive connections in the tor docu.
This being your first post: Welcome to these forums.
While we try to help people of all levels of knowledge, it would still be worthwhile to tell which level of openSUSE you have. Thus people who try to help you can at least read man pages, or even try tor to see what happens with the same software as you use.
Also telling the level instead of ‘latest level’ is much more informative. Now everybody has to find out what the latets level is today. and in half a year, people reading this after searching for a solution allready available in these forums will never know what level it is about.
Warning: Want Tor to really work? …then please don’t just install it
and go on. You need to change some of your habits, and reconfigure
your software! Tor by itself is NOT all you need to maintain your
anonymity. Please take time to read the warning to familiarize
yourself with the pitfalls and limits of Tor.
Even if you aren’t using it, the available entry/relay/exit nodes and various probes for potential circuits are done in the background to reduce the inherent latency of using the tor network.