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About routing

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About routing

- [Instructor] Routing is the process that allows one system to find the network path to another. Routing is often handled by devices on the network dedicated to routing traffic called routers. Although, any computer or programmable network device may be able to act as a router. Usually a host doesn't have to have complex routing defined as there are rules for where traffic goes depending on where it comes from. Scenario one, if the source and destination hosts are on the same physical network, the traffic is forwarded to the destination directly, usually by the network switch. Scenario two, if the source and destination hosts are not on the same physical network, then all defined routes in the routing table are tried one after another. These routes could be dynamic routes added by our DHCP server or they could be static routes that we've added manually. If a proper route is found, the packet is forwarded. Scenario…

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