[39336] in North American Network Operators' Group
hot/cold-potato routing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vandy Hamidi)
Mon Jul 2 20:32:00 2001
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From: Vandy Hamidi <vhamidi@insweb.com>
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Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 17:30:30 -0700
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I'm new to the world of high-end/ISP-level routing and traffic manipulation.
I recently heard of "cold-potato and hot-potato routing" and have developed
an understanding of what it means and why hot-potato is default because of
BGPs very nature.
My question is, How is Cold-Potato routing implemented, and how are ISPs
like Above Net able to just switch over when a backbone connection is lost?
Are MEDs involved?
Thanks,
-=Vandy=-
