Some devices for this process suffered outages on “512k day” in August 2014. This process’s “cold potato” form can be implemented using multi-exit discriminators. A set of rules for this process are subject to the “count to infinity” problem and can employ “poisoning” in order to avoid loops. The CIDR method is commonly used to allocate 128-bit numbers for use in this process. Distance (*) vector protocols that perform this process often employ the Bellman-Ford algorithm, which computes the shortest path from one source node to all possible destinations. Devices that perform this process use namesake “tables” that aim to minimize a metric such as hop count or bandwidth. For 10 points, name this process of choosing a path for network traffic, which is performed in the home using modems. ■END■
ANSWER: routing [accept specific algorithms such as distance-vector routing or link-state routing; prompt on IP address allocation by asking “for use in what process?”]
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