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 <n...@neelc.org> 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 > 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. That's why web hosts are okay with guard nodes but not exits, and also > why you can be a guard node on a broadband connection without getting > complaints from your ISP. Abuse complaints don't go to a guard node, it goes > to exits as exits connect directly to requested non-onion websites and guards > don't. > > -Neel Chauhan > > === > > https://www.neelc.org/ > >> On 2018-06-06 14:42, Keifer Bly wrote: >> 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 >> been marked as a “guard” relay. I believe being a “guard” >> relay requires at least 10mb/s for relay speed, but am wondering, do I >> need to configure my torrc file to allow it to be used as a guard >> relay and are there any risks for doing this (like there are in >> running in exit relay)? Thank you. >> _______________________________________________ >> tor-relays mailing list >> tor-relays@lists.torproject.org >> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
