A system, method and apparatus arranged for efficient usage of network resources. Embodiments include nodes linked together, and the links having differing costs, e.g., bandwidth, frequency, and/or monetary cost, or any combination of these. Embodiments may identify neighboring nodes as either next-hop-neighbors or non-next-hop-neighbors. Next-hop-neighbors lie on the shortest path to any node, while non-next-hop-neighbors are nodes linked directly to a node, but the link is more costly than an alternative multi-hop path to the same node. Accordingly, embodiments may suppress packets to the non-next-hop-neighbors.