North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: how is cold-potato done?
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, 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? MED's are one way.. External traceroute kungfu feeding a routeserver are another.
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