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[[!meta title="Managing the circuits of Tor"]]
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<span class="application">Onion Circuits</span> displays information about
the current Tor circuits and connections.
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<!-- Note for translators: the entry guard in use when you take the screenshot
onion-circuits.png is in a position to identify you. You might prefer to leave it
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When you connect to a destination server, for example, when visiting a website, the connection appears in the list below the circuit it uses.
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[[!img onion-circuits.png link=no]]
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The first relay, here **drk**, is called the *entry guard*.
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If you configured a Tor bridge, your bridge is your entry guard.
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The second relay, here **kicka**, is called the *middle relay*.
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The third relay, here **Quetzalcoatl**, is called the *exit node*.
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[[!img doc/anonymous_internet/tor/tor.png link="no" alt="Schematics of a connection to Tor with the client, the 3 relays, and the destination server."]]
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<h1 id="change">Closing and replacing a Tor circuit</h1>
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You can close a given Tor circuit to help replace a particularly slow Tor circuit or troubleshoot issues on the Tor network. To do so:
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Right-click (on Mac, click with two fingers) on the circuit that you want to close.
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Choose **Close this circuit** in the shortcut menu.
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When you close a circuit that is being used by an application, your
application gets disconnected from this destination service.
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For example, when you close a circuit while <i>Tor Browser</i> is
downloading a file, the download fails.
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If you connect to the same destination server again, Tor uses a different circuit to replace the circuit that you closed.
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For example, if you download the same file again, Tor uses a new circuit.
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