<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div><br></div><div>On 3 Mar 2018, at 02:15, Stijn Jonker <<a href="mailto:sjcjonker@sjc.nl">sjcjonker@sjc.nl</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div style="white-space:normal"><p dir="auto">On 2 Mar 2018, at 12:08, Vasilis wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto">Hi,<br>
<br>
Roger Dingledine:</p>
<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#999; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px; border-left-color:#999"><p dir="auto">On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 06:47:00PM +0000, nusenu wrote:</p>
</blockquote><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#999; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px; border-left-color:#999"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#BBB; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px; border-left-color:#BBB"><p dir="auto">if your relays behave strangely in terms of bandwidth seen, than this<br>
might be due to the fact that there are less than 3 bw auth votes available.<br>
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If you run a fast relay it is capped to 10k cw.<br>
<br>
This affects currently the 857 fastest relays.</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">Yep! We had 4 running, but 2 of them had problems, and we need 3<br>
for the authorities to want to use the values from them.</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">Perhaps it makes sense to do a call and add some more bandwidth authority relays<br>
during the upcoming meeting in Rome similar to the Montreal meeting.<br>
</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">Would the following documents still be valid (They themselves state they might be outdated)?<br>
<a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/BandwidthAuthority" style="color:#3983C4">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/BandwidthAuthority</a><br>
<a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/BandwidthAuthorityMeasurements" style="color:#3983C4">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/BandwidthAuthorityMeasurements</a></p>
<p dir="auto">Also what bandwidth should an bwauth have available itself?</p>
<p dir="auto">I can see if I can support by running one, although it will be EU based.</p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>You need a directory authority to vote on your bandwidth authority's output.<div><div><br><div><div>Bandwidth authorities measure relay capacity. Then they send their results to a</div><div>directory authority, and the directory authority puts the results in its vote. The</div><div>directory authority votes change the consensus weights of relays.</div><div><br></div><div>If your bandwidth authority isn't used for voting or testing, it's just wasting</div><div>bandwidth.</div></div><div><br></div><div>If you want to test and contribute code to a new bandwidth authority</div><div>implementation, I'd recommend:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/TheTorProject/bwscanner">https://github.com/TheTorProject/bwscanner</a></div><div><br></div><div>But you'll need to change the default bandwidth server config, due to the</div><div>tor project DDoS.</div><div><br></div><div>T</div></div></div></body></html>