Hello,
I set up a relay node on my VPS to eat up all that unused bandwidth, and it's doing well so far [1].
Since I have ~3TB per month and I heard hibernation is preferable to throttling, I set up monthly accounting with that cap. However I have two doubts:
1. Is daily accounting preferable? That is, what's best, shorter or longer hibernation periods?
2. How does hibernation play with the Guard flag? I know Guards rotation plays a crucial role in users privacy, and it seems to me hibernation would really hurt a client that selected you as its Guard, since it will have either to run with one less available Guard, or pick a new one and increase its risk. Also, I know there are talks about making only 1 Guard selected, how would that play with hibernation?
N.B. please cc me into the replies, I might not be getting only-in-list replies.
Thanks, Filippo
[1] https://globe.torproject.org/#/relay/2EC042F4274CC8A54381C78E8D1BF322FA26A09...
On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 11:09:33 -0800, Filippo Valsorda hi@filippo.io wrote:
- Is daily accounting preferable? That is, what's best, shorter or
longer hibernation periods?
This issued was touched on recently here: http://www.mail-archive.com/tor-relays%40lists.torproject.org/msg04996.html
Excerpt: "As the Tor manual says, it's better to have a fast relay available some of the time instead of having a slow relay available all the time."
- How does hibernation play with the Guard flag? I know Guards rotation
plays a crucial role in users privacy, and it seems to me hibernation would really hurt a client that selected you as its Guard, since it will have either to run with one less available Guard, or pick a new one and increase its risk. Also, I know there are talks about making only 1 Guard selected, how would that play with hibernation?
Not sure but I think the configuration made to satisfy question #1 is going to override this concern.
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