hot-potato routing

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Definition of hot-potato routing in English English dictionary

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hot-potato routing

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

Hyphenation

hot-potato rout-ing

Synonyms

deflection routing

Etymology

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