Re: [tor-relays] Tor Guard Relay

2018-06-07 Thread Neel Chauhan
On 2018-06-07 14:08, Keifer Bly wrote: Thanks. How much bandwidth and uptime do I need to become a guard relay? Sent from my iPhone Bandwidth requirments: A guard is the first relay in the chain of 3 relays building a Tor circuit. A middle relay is neither a guard nor an exit, but acts as t

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Guard Relay

2018-06-07 Thread Keifer Bly
Thanks. How much bandwidth and uptime do I need to become a guard relay? Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 7, 2018, at 5:39 AM, Neel Chauhan wrote: > > The guard flag gets automatically assigned to you if you have enough > bandwidth and uptime. You usually don't get to choose. You can still > infl

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Guard Relay

2018-06-07 Thread Neel Chauhan
The guard flag gets automatically assigned to you if you have enough bandwidth and uptime. You usually don't get to choose. You can still influence it by inducing downtime or limiting bandwidth (but both will be counterproductive). There are no risks in being a guard node, unlike being an exit.

[tor-relays] Tor Guard Relay

2018-06-06 Thread Keifer Bly
Hello, I have one question. I have been running my relay “torland” at http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detail.php?FP=db1af6477bb276b6ea5e72132684096eee779d30 For roughly 3 months now (I am unsure exactly how many days). While my relay is marked “fast” and “stable” currently, it has never b