[OCCAID] New path to KAME

[Tyler Delane]

SR, ESC wrote:

>Le ven 2005-01-28 a 21:25:29 -0500, James <james at towardex.com> a dit:
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>>Since we made changes on the network last week, including turning 6830 as a
>>peer, and converting 6175 into peer as well (not done yet) path to HEAnet had
>>got much better as we reconsolidated our routes to Europe. In order to improve
>>it more, we'd rather cold-potato the outbound packets all the way to east point
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>hi, just wondering what "cold-potatoing" is. i'm supposing it's the
>opposite of hot potato, as in that idiom... or am i off my rocker? :)
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Correct, cold potato routing is keeping the routing within your network 
to the best path, whereas hot potato dumps out to the nearest exit point.

>>forward instead of having to go back to west or Chicago to exit the American
>>continent to reach HEAnet.
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>>Makes sense? :)
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>otherwise, yes ;).
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>>-J
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- Tyler