users... User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Reply-To: or-talk@freehaven.net You'll get timed out and clients will route around you. When you're back online and the dirserver recognizes it, you'll get clients routed to you. If you're flapping that much, it's better to just not be online at all. The "line card" excuse means your provider oversubscribed the upstream link; or they actually have a failed line card, but those are usually replaced quickly. On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 09:08:27PM -0400, jbloss@tampabay.rr.com wrote 1.7K bytes in 48 lines about: : What IS the impact on the tor network if a node suddenly drops off the : face of the planet, or appears and disappears every half hour or so : for an 8 hour span? I'd assume since tor is "real time" the node is : simply routed around, correct? How fast are these things compensated : for? ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]