Strange behaviour of Tor 0.2.0.2 Alpha & vidalia 0.0.12

[Matthieu Dalissier]

vikingserver at gmail.com schrieb:
> Matthieu,
>
> I also have similar incompatibility between tor 0202alpha and vidalia 0012.
> Vidalia is not updated to work with tor 0202alpha.
>
> Did you notice that vidalia creates a new torrc file in it's own folder?
> Did you edit the settings in that file, or in the old torrc place under
> documents and settings? With newer versions of vidalia, the old torrc
> file isn't used anymore.
>
> It works for me if I edit the settings in the torrc in the vidalia
> folder. Vidalia doesn't overwrite them if I set them in that torrc file
> directly, without using the vidalia settings menu.
>
> RelayBandwidth settings work very well on my computer. I also set the
> normal bandwidth settings to restrict my own tor usage, otherwise I get
> huge bandwidth "spikes".
>
> /Viking
>
>
> Matthieu Dalissier skrev:
>   
>> Hi guys
>>
>> I, i just changed my two Servers RMLAnonSrv1 and RMLAnonSrv2 from
>> 0.1.2.14 to 0.2.0.2 Alpha and noticed some strange behaviour.
>> I am not sure if this is the right place to post this, these could
>> also be vidalia bugs.
>>
>> Case1:
>>    In case of a bandwidth upgrade from my ISP i had to restart my two
>> cablemodems and therefore also my Tor's. Then i saw in the logs that
>> that they didn't update their IP         address to solve the problem
>> i clicked the update button in vidalia which showed me my updated IP.
>>    But, after i saved, it wasn't written in the config, even if i
>> edited it manually, saved the file and restarted tor & vidalia, the
>> old IP address seems to be rewritten in the config         file.
>>
>> Case2:
>>    I set the two options RelayBandwithBurst and RelayBandwithRate, i
>> didn't saw any difference in bandwith consuming or in speed.
>>    I also noticed, that the two old options BandwithBurst and
>> BandwithRate reappeared in the config file after i changed my
>> Bandwidth to 100 kb/s and save that  in vidalia.         After
>> reopening vidalia, the Bandwith was set to >1.5 mbps.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the great work on anonymity your doing, sorry for my bad
>> english, and hope somebody can help.
>> greetz Matt
>>
>>     
>
>   
hi viking

i edited the file /documents and settings/administrator/application 
data/vidalia/torrc, so i should also edit the file /tor/torrc?
Thanks, now i understand how the Relay... options are working,  i will 
try this out.