Re: Freenet in Whonix

Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab-S0/[email protected]> Wed, 21 Dec 2016 09:47:18 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.network.freenet.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

[email protected] writes:

> On 2016-12-19 23:36, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
>> [email protected] writes:
>> With multiple nodes running on the gateway, the performance should be
>> good enough for tasks which are similar in their requirements to 
>> regular
>> browsing.
>
> How would that fare for resource use? Gateway VM is set with 512MB RAM 
> to allow for DE to load but it can run with as little as 128MB which is 
> really useful when running mutliple anonymity clients in parallel for 
> different activities.

Freenet normally uses 256 MiB RAM, which suffices easily if you avoid
loading the Web of Trust (not needed for the gateway).

It can work with 128MiB (I have an node set to a 128MiB limit). Going
much lower is hard, depending on the workload for the node (though I’m
not sure how far down you can get if you optimize Freenet purely for
forwarding from the node on the client).

>> What I mean is: Would a SOCKS interface not just provide the same as 
>> SSH forwarding?
>
> Yes technically you can turn SSH into a SOCKS proxy server when you run 
> it dynamically.

Then I didn’t remember it completely wrong — thank you for answering the
basic question :)

So if I understood it right, you’re port-forwarding exactly the services
the client needs and nothing else.

Can you set a different port for each gateway?  (Freenet normally
chooses the listening port at random which it then keeps for subsequent
runs. You can set the port in the initial configuration, though, and it
will then stick to it)

Best wishes,
Arne
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