FreeBSD with xinetd
Dan Mahoney, System Admin
danm at prime.gushi.org
Wed Feb 8 16:58:12 UTC 2006
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Michael Holstein wrote:
Use ipfw and forward.
ipfw add fwd 127.0.0.1,TORPORT tcp from any to IPADDRESS 80
I used this to run a MUD once and have it sit on port 23.
You may also want to take a look at Thomas Boutell's excellent rinetd
program, which is a more userspace example of what you want -- except that
with the IPFW answer, the thing will see the original source IP (not that
it really matters in the case of TOR)
-Dan
> I'm running a TOR server (nick=csutor) on FreeBSD, using xinetd to forward
> the connections from 80/443 to higher ports so tor dosen't run as root.
>
> I'm trying to maximize the efficiency of this .. I started with the default
> of 25 processes under xinetd, but these quickly filled. I then tried 250,
> which also filled. Now, I'm using 500 processes for xinetd -- and it seems to
> hover around 300 or so.
>
> Despite what everyone says about TOR being cpu/memory intense, I'm using far
> more memory keeping all those xinetd connections open. Does anyone know a
> better way to do this on FreeBSD?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael Holstein CISSP GCIA
> Cleveland State University
>
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