From chris.clemson at btinternet.com Fri Nov 20 11:46:10 2015 From: chris.clemson at btinternet.com (CHRIS CLEMSON) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 11:46:10 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [General] Helping the network (DHT) + bootstrap node References: <1758209938.12611583.1448019970207.JavaMail.yahoo.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1758209938.12611583.1448019970207.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Hi everyone,I've just installed TOX and am playing with it.I have a (newbie) question about the DHT part: As most users will be behind NAT, does it help to run a TOX client on a static public address to act as a relay, even if I'm not actively using it for messaging? I know I could run a bootstrap node instead, which is a possibility, but this is mainly a question about how the system works. On that side, roughly how much CPU and bandwidth would a bootstrap node require? Thanks! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From email at oranges.net.nz Sun Nov 22 10:26:01 2015 From: email at oranges.net.nz (Oranges) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 23:26:01 +1300 Subject: [General] Helping the network (DHT) + bootstrap node In-Reply-To: <1758209938.12611583.1448019970207.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1758209938.12611583.1448019970207.JavaMail.yahoo.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1758209938.12611583.1448019970207.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <56519839.3060801@oranges.net.nz> Hi > As most users will be behind NAT, does it help to run a TOX client on a > static public address to act as a relay, even if I'm not actively using > it for messaging? It's helpful to have stable nodes in the network, especially ones without any NAT or a shifting IP address. However, running a bootstrap/tcp node would be better as it will properly advertise itself as being available to use for clients that are having trouble punching through say NAT, or needing to use tcp to connect. > > I know I could run a bootstrap node instead, which is a possibility, but > this is mainly a question about how the system works. > > On that side, roughly how much CPU and bandwidth would a bootstrap node > require? My knowledge of this is out of date, but I ran one several months ago on a 20 dollar VPS and the data/cpu usage was minimal. Cheers oranges From Jfreegman at tox.chat Sun Nov 22 11:04:06 2015 From: Jfreegman at tox.chat (Jfreegman) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 10:59:06 -0005 Subject: [General] Helping the network (DHT) + bootstrap node In-Reply-To: <1758209938.12611583.1448019970207.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1758209938.12611583.1448019970207.JavaMail.yahoo.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1758209938.12611583.1448019970207.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1448190246.24109.1@mail.tox.chat> Hi Chris, Running a Tox client with UDP enabled does cause your client to passively act as a DHT node the same way a bootstrap node would do, which helps strengthen the network. It shouldn't matter if your IP is dynamic or static. Bootstrap nodes require very little CPU. Bandwidth depends on whether or not you enable TCP relaying. TCP relays take up a significant amount of bandwidth (around 5-10 GiB per day from my experience). However if you disable TCP then it will take up no more bandwidth than a normal Tox client. On Fri, 20 Nov, 2015 at 6:46 AM, CHRIS CLEMSON wrote: > Hi everyone, > I've just installed TOX and am playing with it. > I have a (newbie) question about the DHT part: > > As most users will be behind NAT, does it help to run a TOX client on > a static public address to act as a relay, even if I'm not actively > using it for messaging? > > I know I could run a bootstrap node instead, which is a possibility, > but this is mainly a question about how the system works. > > On that side, roughly how much CPU and bandwidth would a bootstrap > node require? > > Thanks! > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vincenzo.romano at notorand.it Tue Nov 24 09:36:13 2015 From: vincenzo.romano at notorand.it (Vincenzo Romano) Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 10:36:13 +0100 Subject: [General] TOX data usage Message-ID: Is there any detail about the amount of data needed by TOX to, say, send and receive 1 KB messages? TIA. -- Vincenzo Romano - NotOrAnd.IT Information Technologies -- NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS From daniel at pocock.pro Wed Nov 25 19:16:17 2015 From: daniel at pocock.pro (Daniel Pocock) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 20:16:17 +0100 (CET) Subject: [General] [CFP] reminder! FOSDEM RTC dev-room talks: deadline Friday Message-ID: <20151125191617.0897531E7E@daniel1.office.readytechnology.co.uk> Reminder: speaker's deadline this Friday, 27 November at 23:59 UTC We have already received several really exciting talk proposals but there is still time for people to propose talks or encourage friends or colleagues to speak. Many other dev-rooms also have a deadline in the next few days and if your topic is applicable to more than one dev-room, you are welcome to make more than one submission. Please contact us or put a note in the memo field at the top of the talk proposal if you do that. All projects are encouraged to consider making a lightning talk too, it is an excellent opportunity to get exposure for your project: even though you only have 15 minutes, it can be a much larger and more diverse audience than in some dev-rooms. For full details, please see the call for papers: http://danielpocock.com/fosdem-2016-free-rtc-dev-room-and-lounge We invite all potential speakers and participants to discuss the selection process and other aspects of FOSDEM on the Free-RTC mailing list: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/free-rtc