Re: [tor-relays] No guard flag?

2015-08-18 Thread 12xBTM
Advertised/Measured bandwidth is too low. Only the top XX% (I think 10-20%, I don't remember off-hand) of nodes (by bandwidth) are eligible to become guard nodes. At the moment, that works out that your node needs to have at least ~2MBps bandwidth to be be eligible for the guard flag. On

[tor-relays] Are BWauths punishing 'bad' relays? (not publishing measurements)

2015-08-18 Thread nusenu
Hi, this is actually a question to BWauth ops. even though the new onionoo measured flag data is not* yet completely rolled out (since it has to be deployed for a week to assign the flag to all relays), I would have a question since the data says that all relays in the previously detected AWS

Re: [tor-relays] Are BWauths punishing 'bad' relays? (not publishing measurements)

2015-08-18 Thread Tom Ritter
We're not punishing on purpose, that's for sure. DirAuths may not vote on a relay to exclude it from the consensus, or may vote to give it BadExit, but BWAuths have no such mechanism, and I guess you'll just have to take the words of the individual operators to not do something as evil as try and

Re: [tor-relays] No guard flag?

2015-08-18 Thread Stefan Floeren
On 18.08.2015 17:09, Tor Tor wrote: That explains it, thanks. Related question. arm often reports throughput around 1 Mbit/s. Why is my measured bandwidth only 110 Kbit/s on blutmagie.de? (My connection is advertised as 10 Mbit and always gets over 1 Mbit).

Re: [tor-relays] No guard flag?

2015-08-18 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 07:43:15AM -0400, 12xBTM wrote: Advertised/Measured bandwidth is too low. This is true. Only the top XX% (I think 10-20%, I don't remember off-hand) of nodes (by bandwidth) are eligible to become guard nodes. At the moment, that works out that your node needs to have