[tor-talk] Why is 'Wgm' (middle-relay-for-guard weight) not zero?

Tim Wilson-Brown - teor teor2345 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 17 02:32:04 UTC 2015


> Just scanned through all the material and did find anything that directly discusses the question:
> 
> _specifically_ why is the weight of middle relays for USE AS A GUARD not zero?  The 'Wgm' parameter is described as
> 
>    Wgm - Weight for non-flagged nodes in the guard Position
This is intended to be the weighting for bridge relays, which are non-flagged nodes in the guard position.
(There's a comment in the source code about it.)

Tim

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