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On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 05:39:41PM -0700, Danny McPherson wrote: > > And often enough, I've seen MEDs result in worst-exit routing. > That is, routing that was intended to be better than closest-exit > (aka. hot-potato), but turns out to be far worse than best-exit > (I believe some refer to this as cold-potato *8^/) because an > adjacent AS in unable to correctly convey the optimal entry point > into their AS via MEDs, be it because of GOOD aggregation, or > uncluefully derived MED values. I believe Avi Freedman would call that "mashed-potato" routing. -- Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/humble PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)
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