Merlin/TOR

[NoelS]

New Merlin user here (loving it)! A question:

In the VPN section, there is a tab for TOR. Googling around, I don't find any instructions or discussion of how this works or is implemented. Is it somewhere I have missed?

 

[L&LD]

Try searching for Torguard? I'm not familiar with this either though, fair warning.

 

[NoelS]

Torguard is a commercial VPN. I don't think (hope) that it involves that.

 

[L&LD]

Torguard is a commercial VPN. I don't think (hope) that it involves that.

I really don't know.

Others should be able to jump in here with suggestions soon.

 

[Jack Yaz]

https://www.torproject.org

 

[Marin]

https://www.snbforums.com/threads/vpn-tor-settings.23869/


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[NoelS]

Thanks, guys! I am generally aware of TOR and its use. I'm just a little curious as to why this was added with no documentation at all when much less esoteric features are documented.......

 

[Swistheater]

because it was added with the intentions that the person using it would know what they were doing--and would not use it if they didnt know what they were doing....

 

[Marin]

Thanks, guys! I am generally aware of TOR and its use. I'm just a little curious as to why this was added with no documentation at all when much less esoteric features are documented.......

Perhaps as an extra feature to increase web traffic anonymity if used alongside of VPN, however, there may be some pros and cons to such use based on the overall documented Tor performance when it comes to anonymity. Even the reference from the Tor Project does not appear to recommend use with a VPN unless you know what you are doing.

I have not used it in any of my routers.


https://matthewcasperson.blogspot.com/2015/04/remember-me-not-avoiding-australian.html?m=1

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorPlusVPN

https://www.computerworld.com/artic...aper-on-privacy-vpns-tor-and-vpn-routers.html


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[NoelS]

@Marin Thanks! Good links!
@Swistheater Cute answer, but not helpful. Without knowing what goes on "under the hood" of this specific implementation (TOR without the browser bundle is atypical at best), it is impossible to ascertain it's usability or security. If you have "inside information", please enlighten us.

At some point, it would be nice if our fearless leader would chime-in and at least let us know his intent for this feature and a few details of its underlying implementation.

 

[Swistheater]

Perhaps as an extra feature to increase web traffic anonymity if used alongside of VPN, however, there may be some pros and cons to such use based on the overall documented Tor performance when it comes to anonymity. Even the reference from the Tor Project does not appear to recommend use with a VPN unless you know what you are doing.

I have not used it in any of my routers.


https://matthewcasperson.blogspot.com/2015/04/remember-me-not-avoiding-australian.html?m=1

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorPlusVPN

https://www.computerworld.com/artic...aper-on-privacy-vpns-tor-and-vpn-routers.html


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only beneficial way I've seen it work is if you run a two router setup. main router- and a VPN router, but it is real hairy and alot of concerns and issues unless you put all the clients only on VPN router or know how to set up policy and static routes properly.

 

[Swistheater]

you can also use it to function as client specific only.

 

[Swistheater]

only beneficial way I've seen it work is if you run a two router setup. main router- and a VPN router, but it is real hairy and alot of concerns and issues unless you put all the clients only on VPN router or know how to set up policy and static routes properly.

I cannot imagine anyone getting a good internet speed or connection doing this though. I would hope they had a gig speed connections.

 

[RMerlin]

Thanks, guys! I am generally aware of TOR and its use. I'm just a little curious as to why this was added with no documentation at all when much less esoteric features are documented.......

Tor was added only because Asus had started implementing it, and stopped mid-way. Finishing their work wasn't too much efforts so I did it, however it's not a feature I want to devote any particular development time to, hence it's not really documented or advertised. The current implementation probably won't get any further enhancements beside keeping the client code up-to-date for security purposes.

 

[NoelS]

Thanks VERY much for responding. Makes sense. I will play with it, iterate and test.

 

[davidlee93]

Hi,

I have a question regarding TOR as implemented in the Asuswrt-Merlin firmware: Does each individual NAT address correspond to a different TOR IP (see image below)?

thanks