[tor-relays] Measuring the Accuracy of Tor Relays' Advertised Bandwidths

[teor]

Hi,

> On 17 Aug 2019, at 18:11, Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster at gmx.de> wrote:
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> On 7/26/19 4:18 PM, Rob Jansen wrote:
>> I am planning on performing an experiment on the Tor network to try to gauge the accuracy of the advertised bandwidths that relays report in their server descriptors.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> does this by any chance caused the lost of the "guard" flag ? Observed here now 2 times for 2 relays running at the same ip [1] and [2] within the last few days.
> 
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> [1] https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/509EAB4C5D10C9A9A24B4EA0CE402C047A2D64E6
> [2] https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/63BF46A63F9C21FD315CD061B3EAA3EB05283A0A

Yes, changing other relays' bandwidths can affect the Guard flag, because
Guard is given to the fastest, most stable relays.

T

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