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<div>Hi,
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<div>On Thursday, March 5, 2020 at 8:24 PM, Imre Jonk <imre@imrejonk.nl> wrote:
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<div>Hi Eddie,
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On Wed, 2020-03-04 at 12:34 -0800, Eddie wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">Does BandwidthRate apply to bridges. I can (hopefully) guess that
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RelayBandwidth doesn't.
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Does the AccountingMax apply.</blockquote>
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I am almost certain that all three options apply to bridges as well.</div>
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<div>Note that BandwidthRate applies to all TCP data (not the TCP headers or
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DNS traffic), while RelayBandwidth* applies to the _relayed traffic_
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only.
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<blockquote type="cite">I noticed the following in the manual:
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If you have bandwidth cost issues, enabling hibernation is preferable
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to setting a low bandwidth, since it provides users with a collection
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of fast servers that are up some of the time, which is more useful
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than a set of slow servers that are always "available".
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Does that advice apply equally to bridges, assuming that the
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Accounting options do apply. Or would it more advantageous for a
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bridge to be constantly available, as switching bridges isn't as
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seamless as switching relays.</blockquote>
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That's an interesting question. Bridges are required to provide at
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least 1 Mbit/s bandwidth, but I can't find anything related to uptime
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requirements (except for the two hours a day minimum). I'd say that the
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advice therefore also applies to bridges. The Tor client software can
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be configured to use multiple bridges.</div>
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I would say the recommendation to use AccountingMax does
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not apply for bridges.
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It's just a subjective impression but there are often people
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complaining that most bridges they get handed out don't
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work or stop working after a short time.
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Some of these people end up believing that they are unable to
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use Tor at all from their location, because their adversary
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successfully detected the bridge.
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(Which might be true in some cases.)
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In order to avoid confusion for people who depend on using bridges
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it seems to make more sense to limit the bandwith instead.</div>
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