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Deploying Simple Bandwidth Scanner

To run sbws is needed:

Both the scanner and your the destination (s) should be on fast, well connected machines.

destination requirements

  • A Web server installed and running that supports HTTP GET, HEAD and Range (RFC 7233) requests. Apache HTTP Server and Nginx support them.

  • TLS support to avoid HTTP content caches at the various exit nodes.

  • Certificates can be self-signed.

  • A large file; at the time of writing, at least 1 GiB in size It can be created running:

    head -c $((1024*1024*1024)) /dev/urandom > 1GiB

  • A fixed IP address or a domain name.

  • Bandwidth: at least 12.5MB/s (100 Mbit/s).

  • Network traffic: around 12-15GB/day.

If possible, use a Content delivery network (CDN) in order to make the destination IP closer to the scanner exit.

scanner setup

Install sbws according to INSTALL.rst (in the local directory or Tor Project Gitlab) or INSTALL.html (local build or Read the Docs).

To run the scanner it is mandatory to create a configuration file with at least one destination. It is recommended to set several destinations so that the scanner can continue if one fails.

If sbws is installed from the Debian package, then create the configuration file in /etc/sbws/sbws.ini. You can see an example with all the possible options here, note that you don't need to include all of that and that everything that starts with # and ; is a comment:

.. literalinclude:: /examples/sbws.example.ini
    :caption: Example sbws.example.ini

If sbws is installed from the sources as a non-root user then create the configuration file in ~/.sbws.ini.

More details about the configuration file can be found in ./docs/source/man_sbws.ini.rst (in the local directory or Tor Project Gitlab) or man_sbws.ini.html (local build or Read the Docs) or man sbws.ini (system package).

See also ./docs/source/man_sbws.rst (in the local directory or Tor Project Gitlab) or man_sbws.html (local build or Read the Docs) or man sbws (system package).