From 66dafca61adc04d560c8d9060ab16814ec4c67e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: orignal <i2porignal@yandex.ru>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 22:34:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] select existing connection for first hop of a tunnel

---
 TunnelPool.cpp | 15 +++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/TunnelPool.cpp b/TunnelPool.cpp
index 515e0f5d..4bd116cb 100644
--- a/TunnelPool.cpp
+++ b/TunnelPool.cpp
@@ -330,8 +330,8 @@ namespace tunnel
 	{
 		if (m_ExplicitPeers) return SelectExplicitPeers (peers, isInbound);
 		int numHops = isInbound ? m_NumInboundHops : m_NumOutboundHops;
-		if (numHops <= 0) return true;
-		auto prevHop	= i2p::context.GetSharedRouterInfo();
+		if (numHops <= 0) return true; // peers is empty 
+		auto prevHop = i2p::context.GetSharedRouterInfo ();			
 		if(i2p::transport::transports.RoutesRestricted())
 		{
 			/** if routes are restricted prepend trusted first hop */
@@ -340,6 +340,17 @@ namespace tunnel
 			peers.push_back(hop->GetRouterIdentity());
 			prevHop = hop;
 		}
+		else if (i2p::transport::transports.GetNumPeers () > 25)
+		{
+			auto r = i2p::transport::transports.GetRandomPeer ();
+			if (r && !r->GetProfile ()->IsBad ())
+			{
+				prevHop = r;
+				peers.push_back (r->GetRouterIdentity ());
+				numHops--;
+			}
+		}
+		
 		for(int i = 0; i < numHops; i++ )
 		{
 			auto hop = SelectNextHop (prevHop);