Tor over SSh Tunnel diagnostics

ADB firefox-gen at walala.org
Tue Feb 14 00:41:40 UTC 2006


Being on the server end, how do I isolate connections? In other words, 
unless I'm being a client to my own server, how would I be able to tell?

phobos at rootme.org wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 07:42:03PM -0800, firefox-gen at walala.org wrote 0.6K bytes in 13 lines about:
> : to either test myself or have someone else test my Tor server to see how 
> : it fares in terms of speed and responsiveness when used via a remote SSH 
> : tunnel? The reason I ask is that my server cannot be accessed by clients 
> : from the outside due to a university firewall. Both the connection here 
> : and at my remote location are pretty fast, so I think opening a 
> : forwarded port over there to over here would be relitavely low latency.
> 	
> 	If you are testing ssh over tor, your performance is going to be
> 	as fast as the slowest node in your circuit.  If you're
> 	suggesting doing a straight non-tor ssh tunnel, then the
> 	performance will be generally based upon transit and cpu
> 	performance of both ends of the tunnel.
>
> 	There's no better way to find the answer than simply trying it
> 	out. 
>
>   



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