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hot-potato routing

hot-potato routing noun: 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.

Noun

hot-potato routing (uncountable)

  1. (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.
    Synonyms:
    deflection routing

Synonyms of hot-potato routing

  • deflection routing

Origin of hot-potato routing

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

Questions about hot-potato routing

What does hot-potato routing mean?
Hot-potato routing means 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.
What part of speech is hot-potato routing?
Hot-potato routing is a noun.

Words near hot-potato routing in the dictionary

  1. hot-patching
  2. hot-plate
  3. hot-plates
  4. hot-pluggable
  5. hot-pot
  6. hot-potato routing
  7. hot-pots
  8. hot-press
  9. hot-pressed
  10. hot-presser
  11. hot-pressers

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