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Authors:
James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross
Chapter:
The Network Layer
Exercise:
Review
Question:15 | ISBN:9780132856201 | Edition: 6

Question

Suppose there are three routers between a source host and a destination host. Ignoring fragmentation, an IP datagram sent from the source host to the desti- nation host will travel over how many interfaces? How many forwarding tables will be indexed to move the datagram from the source to the destination?

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Answer

  • An IP datagram sent from the source host to the destination host will travel over 8 interfaces.

  • 3 forwarding tables will be indexed to move the datagram from the source to the destination

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