400-007 · Question #83
Which statement about hot-potato routing architecture design is true?
The correct answer is A. Hot-potato routing is the preferred architecture when connecting to content providers. Hot-potato routing, where traffic exits a network at the earliest possible point, is the preferred BGP architecture when peering with content providers because it shifts transit burden off your network onto the peer's infrastructure.
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Which statement about hot-potato routing architecture design is true?
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- AHot-potato routing is the preferred architecture when connecting to content providers
- BHop-potato keeps traffic under the control of the network administrator for longer
- COSPF uses hot-potato routing if all ASBRs use the same value for the external metric
- DHot-potato routing is prone to misconfiguration as well as poor coordination between two
How the community answered
(22 responses)- A77% (17)
- B5% (1)
- C14% (3)
- D5% (1)
Why each option
Hot-potato routing, where traffic exits a network at the earliest possible point, is the preferred BGP architecture when peering with content providers because it shifts transit burden off your network onto the peer's infrastructure.
Hot-potato routing causes a network to forward traffic out via the closest BGP exit point, minimizing internal bandwidth consumption. Content providers favor this peering model because it delivers traffic to their well-provisioned network early, and the eyeball ISP benefits by offloading internal transit cost as quickly as possible.
Keeping traffic under the network administrator's control for a longer path describes cold-potato routing, which is the opposite of hot-potato behavior.
When all ASBRs advertise the same external metric, OSPF selects the exit point based on the lowest internal IGP cost to the ASBR, which actually produces hot-potato behavior - but this statement incorrectly implies it is a special condition rather than describing the general mechanism.
Susceptibility to misconfiguration and poor inter-AS coordination is a characteristic associated with complex policy routing or confederations, not a defining property of the hot-potato routing architecture itself.
Concept tested: BGP hot-potato vs cold-potato routing design
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/border-gateway-protocol-bgp/13754-26.html
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