[tor] are exits the bottleneck of Tor?
- From: tagnaq <tagnaq@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: torservers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:08:52 +0100
On 02/27/2011 09:43 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
> so the exits only need to be
> able to handle 1/3 of the data, as long as they are 1/3 of the nodes
> on a circuit.
Yes, exits would only have to handle 1/3 but it is not the case that
"they are 1/3 of the nodes on a circuit" because exits (with the guard
flag set) are the only nodes that are usable on every position (entry,
middle, exit) in a circuit.
So if you would have twice as much non-exit bandwidth as exit bandwidth
you still wouldn't be able to use the entire exit bandwidth for exiting
traffic because this would require that exit nodes will only be used for
exiting traffic.
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