[tor-talk] About bandwidth weights selection

George Kadianakis desnacked at riseup.net
Tue Aug 12 10:10:17 UTC 2014


saurav dahal <dahal.saurav at gmail.com> writes:

> Under which condition, the client will choose Guard flagged node and
> Guard+Exit flagged node for guard position?
>

Tor will consider any node with the Guard flag during guard selection
(this also includes Guard+Exit nodes). As you noticed, it will apply
different weights to nodes with the Guard flag and to nodes with the
Guard+Exit flag.

Please read the "Guard nodes" section of path-spec.txt:
https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob/HEAD:/path-spec.txt



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