en	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**.

en	Understanding Tor circuits

en	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*.

en	Click on a circuit to display the technical details about each relay in the right pane.
fr	Si vous cliquez sur un circuit, des informations techniques à propos des relais le composant apparaissent dans le panneau de droite.

en	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**.

en	The first relay, here **drk**, is called the *entry guard*.

en	If you configured a Tor bridge, your bridge is your entry guard.
fr	Un premier relais ou *garde d'entrée* (« entry guard »). Si vous avez configuré des ponts Tor, un de ces ponts est votre premier relais.

en	The second relay, here **kicka**, is called the *middle relay*.
fr	Un second relais ou *nœud du milieu*.

en	The third relay, here **Quetzalcoatl**, is called the *exit node*.

en	Closing and replacing a Tor circuit

en	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:

en	Right-click (on Mac, click with two fingers) on the circuit that you want to close.

en	Choose **Close this circuit** in the shortcut menu.

en	When you close a circuit that is being used by an application, your application gets disconnected from this destination service.

en	For example, when you close a circuit while Tor Browser is downloading a file, the download fails.

en	If you connect to the same destination server again, Tor uses a different circuit to replace the circuit that you closed.
fr	Lorsque vous vous connectez à un serveur de destination, par exemple en visitant un site web, la connexion apparaît dans la liste sous le circuit qu'elle emprunte.

en	For example, if you download the same file again, Tor uses a new circuit.