[tor-bugs] #6872 [Tor Client]: 'bwweightscale' pram missing from spec

Mon Sep 17 01:07:11 UTC 2012

#6872: 'bwweightscale' pram missing from spec
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 Reporter:  atagar      |          Owner:     
     Type:  defect      |         Status:  new
 Priority:  trivial     |      Milestone:     
Component:  Tor Client  |        Version:     
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 The 'bandwidth-weights' attribute mentions that its values are divided by
 the 'bwweightscale' param which defaults to 10000 (I'm not sure what
 meaning "BW_WEIGHT_SCALE" has - guess it's the name of the constant in
 tor's codebase?)...

 https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob/HEAD:/dir-spec.txt#l1482

 The network status document's "params" section should include
 'bwweightscale' and the default value.

 https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob/HEAD:/dir-spec.txt#l1228

 On a side note it's pointless for 'bandwidth-weights' to say that the
 entries are sorted. The above shows the order that entries must appear in.

 I'm assuming that new "Wxx=" values are invalid since the spec explicitly
 lists what it contains and makes no allowances for new ones. If this is
 incorrect then we should fix that too.

 Cheers! -Damian

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