Okay I'm dumb. I just can't get iptables to route everything for me, either I don't get access through the router or it appears to work but my external IP is still my own.
There are a few threads on various forums about doing this, but none have been enough to help me make the jump from thinking I understand it to actually implementing it.
I tried tinkering with both Privoxy and Polipo too. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, I am pulling out what little hair I have left.
Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 61 Location: Asheville NC, USA
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:28 Post subject:
The first step should be trying to get Tor working. Telnet into the router and configure tor by modifying the torrc file. Its fairly self explanatory but their is also tons of documentation at the onion router project. Run Tor manually, make sure it connects to the network then set it to run automatically by creating a script to run on start up, plenty of stuff in the wiki and forum to help with that one. Make sure you can set your browser or some other program to use Tor as a proxy and that it works.
The next step would be the iptable rules. I got this example
I have started trying to get Tor working on my router and realize it wont complete the circuit and I am trying to resolve that problem before proceeding.
Edited to add: Confirmed Tor will connect run from a windows or linux PC, it just can't connect to the onion network from the router. _________________ Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici-
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Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 61 Location: Asheville NC, USA
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 13:05 Post subject:
Discovered that no matter the timezone settings DD-WRT sets the local time to same as UTC. This is a problem because Tor Sees the local time and timezone settings and then calculates UTC which gives an incorrect time when trying to connect. For now I have set my router to use an incorrect timezone (UTC). _________________ Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici-
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Interesting. I haven't had any trouble at all getting Tor working, I just couldn't get things to route properly through Tor exclusively the way I want it to.
Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 61 Location: Asheville NC, USA
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 22:08 Post subject:
it depends on your timezone settings and if you use the native ntp. You wont notice a problem if you are on GMT or close enough but any other timezone and if it is setup right you should get the error I got form tor saying it cant get a consensus because the clock is wrong. When I get some time I plan to install/setup the optware ntpclient. I found an article on it for similar issues with atheros based devices and want to try if I can get it working on broadcom. _________________ Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici-
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This just recently became a project again, guess it made it's way around the ToDo wheel.
Is there a simple way to force all outgoing traffic through the Tor network, maybe using Torsocks?
This should be obvious to the people reading this, but torrent has nothing to do with tor or Torsocks (and IMHO it never ever should, but that's another argument).
Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 61 Location: Asheville NC, USA
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 12:39 Post subject:
I kinda put this on the backburner and went back to using Tor on my home server. _________________ Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici-
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