hot-potato routing

noun

Etymology

From hot potato, a game in which an object is passed on as soon as it is received, + routing.

Definitions

  1. A style of routing network traffic in which packets are forwarded to any available…

    A style of routing network traffic in which packets are forwarded to any available neighbour immediately as opposed to being buffered until the optimum path to the destination is usable.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hot-potato routing. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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