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| author | George Kadianakis <desnacked@riseup.net> | 2014-11-25 00:11:43 +0000 |
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| committer | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2014-11-26 09:03:50 -0500 |
| commit | b5b771b19df9fc052b424228045409467a7b6414 (patch) | |
| tree | 26fcec251b57a2ce7f8a5898accf5dd81034b706 /path-spec.txt | |
| parent | a35a97123e9a3e6b8c455c34b8e86e3201aeba96 (diff) | |
| download | torspec-b5b771b19df9fc052b424228045409467a7b6414.tar.gz torspec-b5b771b19df9fc052b424228045409467a7b6414.zip | |
Set default value for bw weights if absent from consensus.
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diff --git a/path-spec.txt b/path-spec.txt index 9575d25..f3c7c9f 100644 --- a/path-spec.txt +++ b/path-spec.txt @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ of their choices. position they are being selected for. These weights are published in the consensus, and are computed as described - in Section 3.4.3 of dir-spec.txt. They are: + in Section "Computing Bandwidth Weights" of dir-spec.txt. They are: Wgg - Weight for Guard-flagged nodes in the guard position Wgm - Weight for non-flagged nodes in the guard Position @@ -235,6 +235,10 @@ of their choices. Wbe - Weight for Guard+Exit-flagged nodes for BEGIN_DIR requests Wbd - Weight for Guard+Exit-flagged nodes for BEGIN_DIR requests + If any of those weights is malformed or not present in a consensus, + clients proceed with the regular path selection algorithm setting + the weights to the default value of 10000. + Additionally, we may be building circuits with one or more requests in mind. Each kind of request puts certain constraints on paths: |