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by dfc 404 days ago
I am a little confused how the geo encoded addresses and private addresses work. It seems like the network will be overwhelmed with keeping track of switch labels?
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Switch labels are effectively interface IDs on the servers, there is no data to be stored.

Geo encoding simply improves routing to unknown routers, kind of as a baseline structure to the whole network.