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Guard relays are the first hop of any circuit through Tor. This category is for guard specific questions.

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I am using my Tor relay as my entry "guard" for the TBB. What are the risks/downside of doin...

This means that the TBB uses my node as its "guard/entry" relay. By monitoring my node with 'arm' I can see that this is working just as I expected. … When I restarted the TBB after editing 'torrc', TBB immediately picked up my Tor node as its "guard/entry" relay. …
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If my network link is subject to frequent, short, outages (a gentle form of DoS attack?), ca...

If this continues, my node will never achieve the "guard" flag. … contrive to cause (with or without the collusion of telecoms companies) short but reasonably frequent network outages on the network links of new Tor nodes like mine, then that may help it promote to guard
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