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Re: how is cold-potato done?

  • From: E.B. Dreger
  • Date: Wed Jun 26 14:17:46 2002

RD> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 13:52:08 -0400 (EDT)
RD> From: Ralph Doncaster


RD> If I peer with network X in cities A and B, and receive the same route in
RD> both cities with an AS-path of X, how do I know which city to use for an
RD> exit?  I can understand how if X uses communities to tag the geographic
RD> origin of the traffic, but I'm not aware of many networks that do
RD> this.  Lots of networks claim to use cold-potato routing though, so how do
RD> they do it?

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