Hot Potato Routing

💡 The Core Idea

A routing strategy where a network tries to hand off traffic to another network (or exit point) as quickly as possible. The router chooses the closest egress point based on internal costs (IGP), ignoring the cost of the path outside its own network.

🧠 Why use it?

• Simplicity: Computations are based only on known internal path costs.
• Resource Efficiency: It reduces resource consumption within the local network by “getting rid” of the packet immediately.

🔗 Connections

• Source: Source - Intradomain Routing