Hi Teor & Others, Thanks for your response,
On 2 Mar 2018, at 23:26, teor wrote: > > On 3 Mar 2018, at 02:15, Stijn Jonker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 2 Mar 2018, at 12:08, Vasilis wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Roger Dingledine: >> >> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 06:47:00PM +0000, nusenu wrote: >> >> if your relays behave strangely in terms of bandwidth seen, than this >> might be due to the fact that there are less than 3 bw auth votes available. >> >> If you run a fast relay it is capped to 10k cw. >> >> This affects currently the 857 fastest relays. >> >> Yep! We had 4 running, but 2 of them had problems, and we need 3 >> for the authorities to want to use the values from them. >> >> Perhaps it makes sense to do a call and add some more bandwidth authority >> relays >> during the upcoming meeting in Rome similar to the Montreal meeting. >> Would the following documents still be valid (They themselves state they >> might be outdated)? >> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/BandwidthAuthority >> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/BandwidthAuthorityMeasurements >> >> Also what bandwidth should an bwauth have available itself? >> >> I can see if I can support by running one, although it will be EU based. >> > > You need a directory authority to vote on your bandwidth authority's output. Do you know what is the best way to get these vote(s), i.e. who to approach; as these kind of things are still a mystery with the Tor project for me. From a personal believe happy to assist, have reasonable spare CPU/Mem and Bandwidth available. So that should't be an huge issue. I know a thing or two about running systems so to say.. > Bandwidth authorities measure relay capacity. Then they send their results to > a > directory authority, and the directory authority puts the results in its > vote. The > directory authority votes change the consensus weights of relays. > > If your bandwidth authority isn't used for voting or testing, it's just > wasting > bandwidth. > > If you want to test and contribute code to a new bandwidth authority > implementation, I'd recommend: > > https://github.com/TheTorProject/bwscanner Thanks I found the TorFlow repo; that feels a bit hacked, but if either do the job and the above Q can be answered then happy to (try and) set it up. > But you'll need to change the default bandwidth server config, due to the > tor project DDoS. I assume that can be shared in a more private setting then. Stijn
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