[Tor-BSD] simple bandwidth scanner: sbws

[George Rosamond]

George Rosamond:
> George Rosamond:
>> juga of the Tor Project is writing the new bandwidth scanner for Tor,
>> simple bandwidth scanner, sbws. The current one is difficult, and
>> neither Attila nor I could get it working on OpenBSD.
>>
>> The current version is based on a bunch of install steps, but not
>> integrated with any OS's ports systems.
>>
>> juga's is much simpler, and is written in python3. Some of the tests
>> require bash, but we made note of that in a ticket. One of us will work
>> on that at some point.
>>
>> It's only on version 0.8.0, and it won't be ready for production until
>> it hits 1.
>>
>> Vincius already got it into FreeBSD ports
>> (https://www.freshports.org/net/py-sbws/) which is awesome... over the
>> summer I created a functioning OpenBSD Makefile with juga, and have it
>> updated to 0.8.0 now.  It requires py-stem 1.7.0 which is in FreeBSD
>> ports, but OpenBSD still is at 1.6.0. There are a few other basic py-
>> DEPS. I just noticed he has some DEPENDS that aren't in mine, which I'm
>> curious about. . .
> 
> My mistake on the extra DEPs. I glanced quickly and the diff for
> net/Makefile was a bunch of seemingly related py- modules which I
> mistakenly took for py-stem deps.
> 
>>
>> Anyways, running bandwidth scanners is an assigned function within the
>> Tor community, we don't need noise like that impacting the directory
>> authorities. But regardless, it's useful for testing with things like
>> chutney, which should also be ported to the BSDs at some point
>> (https://gitweb.torproject.org/chutney.git/)
>>
>> If anyone does NetBSD porting, take a look at the Freshports url for his
>> port as a guide. Mine isn't public, but I can provide if anyone's
>> interested.
>>
>> Achieving network diversity isn't just about relays as important as that
>> is. Getting a diverse Tor directory infrastructure is also vital, and at
>> this point is mostly Linux, outside of one directory authority and the
>> bridge directory authority AFAIK.
> 

And a NetBSD port of sbws. Not on list, but I hung with him at the
recent Tor summit:

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2018/10/23/msg182187.html

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