There isn't really a trust issue involved. It does take some time to get most clients to know you (generally not more than a day, I believe) and the stable flag will help quite a bit. You should probably check your ports etc, and look at your node on one of the tor monitoring sites (
http://torstatus.kgprog.com/) to make sure that everything there is okay. Mine tends to use it's full allotted bandwidth (250 KB/s) constantly (in the realm of 20-40gb per day), but it's got a good stable history, handles exit traffic, and is marked as guard (which is an automated process).
Check to make sure that incoming connections are working and so forth - that'd be my first guess.
- John
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Austin
<austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello, I started running a tor bridged relay a few days ago. Though I
have been monitoring it lightly and it isnt recieving much traffic. I
have it rate limited at 600KB w/ 1200KB burts. My max connection speed
is symmetric 1500KB+. But according to my monitoring tools the bandwidth
isnt being close to utilized, 2-3 active connections @ 2-10KB. My
question is does it take a while for the other nodes to trust/utilize my
node? or should I start digging through my torrc for a configuration
error? I am running debian etch(4.0) and tor v0.2.0.30.
Thanks!
-a