how is cold-potato done?

Wed Jun 26 17:54:17 UTC 2002

On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 01:52:08PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
> 
> If I peer with network X in cities A and B, and receive the same route in
> both cities with an AS-path of X, how do I know which city to use for an
> exit?  I can understand how if X uses communities to tag the geographic
> origin of the traffic, but I'm not aware of many networks that do
> this.  Lots of networks claim to use cold-potato routing though, so how do
> they do it?

	they use the MED sent on the route (aka metric) from the
other provider to determine which exit where they both interconnect
is the "shortest".

	this can at times provide undesired results because of
aggregation.

	- jared

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