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[[!meta title="Managing the circuits of Tor"]]
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The <span class="guilabel">Network Map</span> feature displays information about
the available Tor relays and your establishedapplication">Onion Circuits</span> displays information about
the current Tor circuits and connections:.
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<span class="application">Onion Circuits</span> displays information about
the current Tor circuits and connections.
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To open **Onion Circuits**, click on the
Tor status icon ([[!img lib/symbolic/tor-disconnected.png alt="Tor status menu" link="no" class="symbolic"]]
or [[!img lib/symbolic/tor-connected.png alt="Tor status menu" link="no"
class="symbolic"]]) in the top-right corner and choose **Open Onion
Circuits**.
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<h1 id="view">Understanding Tor circuits</h1>
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If Tails is already [[connected to the Tor network|doc/anonymous_internet/tor]], a list of Tor circuits appears in the left pane of *Onion Circuits*.
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In the bottom pane, there is a list of the [[circuits|about/warning#exit_node]] established by Tor. 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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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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If you cClick on a circuit, in the right pane are to display thed technical details of the relays composabout each relay ing the circuitright pane.
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Click on a circuit to display the technical details about each relay in the right pane.
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Each Tor circuit is made of 3 Tor relays. In the example above, the connection to **tails.net** goes through the 3 relays **drk**, **kicka**, and **Quetzalcoatl**.
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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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In the bottom pane, there is a list of the [[circuits|about/warning#exit_node]] established by Tor. Whenf you connect to athe same destination server, the connection appears in the list below again, Tor uses a different circuit to replace the circuit it usesthat you closed.
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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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