[or-cvs] r19803: {website} add the "why is it easy to be a relay" to the faq (website/trunk/en)

[arma at seul.org]

Author: arma
Date: 2009-06-23 23:17:10 -0400 (Tue, 23 Jun 2009)
New Revision: 19803

Modified:
   website/trunk/en/faq.wml
Log:
add the "why is it easy to be a relay" to the faq


Modified: website/trunk/en/faq.wml
===================================================================
--- website/trunk/en/faq.wml	2009-06-24 02:54:35 UTC (rev 19802)
+++ website/trunk/en/faq.wml	2009-06-24 03:17:10 UTC (rev 19803)
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
 
 <p>Running a Tor relay:</p>
 <ul>
+<li><a href="#RelayFlexible">How stable does my relay need to be?</a></li>
 <li><a href="#WhyNotNamed">Why is my Tor relay not named?</a></li>
 </ul>
 
@@ -680,6 +681,56 @@
 
 <hr />
 
+<a id="RelayFlexible"></a>
+<h3><a class="anchor" href="#RelayFlexible">How stable does my relay
+need to be?</a></h3>
+
+<p>
+We aim to make setting up a Tor relay easy and convenient:
+</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Tor has built-in support for <a
+href="https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#LimitBandwidth">
+rate
+limiting</a>. Further, if you have a fast link
+but want to limit the number of bytes per day
+(or week or month) that you donate, check out the <a
+href="https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#Hibernation">hib
+ernation
+feature</a>.
+</li>
+<li>Each Tor relay has an <a
+href="https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#RunARelayBut">ex
+it
+policy</a> that specifies what sort of outbound connections are allowed
+or refused from that relay. If you are uncomfortable allowing people
+to exit from your relay, you can set it up to only allow connections
+to other Tor relays.
+</li>
+<li>It's fine if the relay goes offline sometimes. The directories
+notice this quickly and stop advertising the relay. Just try to make
+sure it's not too often, since connections using the relay when it
+disconnects will break.
+</li>
+<li>We can handle relays with dynamic IPs just fine &mdash; simply
+leave the Address config option blank, and Tor will try to guess.
+</li>
+<li>If your relay is behind a NAT and it doesn't know its public
+IP (e.g. it has an IP of 192.168.x.y), you'll need to set up port
+forwarding. Forwarding TCP connections is system dependent but <a
+href="https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#ServerForFirewal
+ledClients">this
+FAQ entry</a> offers some examples on how to do this.
+</li>
+<li>Your relay will passively estimate and advertise its recent
+bandwidth capacity, so high-bandwidth relays will attract more users than
+low-bandwidth ones. Therefore having low-bandwidth relays is useful too.
+</li>
+</ul>
+
+<hr />
+
 <a id="WhyNotNamed"></a>
 <h3><a class="anchor" href="#WhyNotNamed">Why is my Tor relay not named?</a></h3>