Relay Configuration Instructions. The Tor network relies on volunteers to donate bandwidth. The more people who run relays, the faster the Tor network will be. If you have at least 2 megabits/s for both upload and download, please help out Tor by configuring your Tor to be a relay too. You can run a Tor relay on pretty much any operating system. Tor relays work best on current distributions of Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Windows Server. The best approach for most users is to run your relay on Debian or Ubuntu using the system Tor package — the deb takes care of running Tor as a separate user, making sure it has enough file descriptors available, starting it at boot, and so on. Configure Tor by editing the torrc file Tor's configuration file is named 'torrc'. Locate the file on your system, open it with a text editor and add the following lines: ORPort 443 Exitpolicy reject *:* Nickname ididntedittheconfig ContactInfo human@...
Tor will use all your bandwidth if you don't set limits for it. Make sure your relay is reachable. (H)activism. Web activists around the world. Tor Project: Anonymity Online. Tor: Documentation. Torchat - Project Hosting on Google Code. To avoid any potential confusion: This product is produced independently from the Tor® anonymity software, I am not related with or sponsored by torproject.org. TorChat is making use of the Tor® client software and the Windows version comes bundled with original Tor binaries but TorChat itself is a completely separate project developed by different people.
TorChat is released as Free Software (GPL). +++ Feb-05, 2012: This project has been moved to github +++ There are new files in the download section at github: Further development of TorChat will continue at github, effective immediately. below is the old project page for historic reasons. If you like this software then maybe you want to buy me a beer. To call for the waiter. Alternatively there is also a BitCoin address: 18hmynLnHC44XiGiiPqfuTL3M4xPeJ5KqW TorChat just runs from an USB drive on any Windows PC. Tor location hidden services basically means: Linux.