hot-potato routing
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From hot potato, a game in which an object is passed on as soon as it is received, + routing.
Noun[edit]
hot-potato routing (uncountable)
- (networks) 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.