How Routers Know Where to Send Your Packet!🌐 A packet from your laptop to Google passes through many routers. Each router reads the destination IP address, matches it against its routing table, and forwards the packet to the next hop listed there. When two entries match, the router picks the more specific one, so a route for 142.250 wins over a route for 142. Google’s IP address stays the same for the whole trip. The frame wrapped around the packet gets rewritten at every hop with the next rout
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How Routers Know Where to Send Your Packet!🌐 A packet from your laptop to Google passes through many routers. Each router reads the destination IP address, matches it against its routing table, and forwards the packet to the next hop listed there. When two entries match, the router picks the more specific one, so a route for 142.250 wins over a route for 142. Google’s IP address stays the same for the whole trip. The frame wrapped around the packet gets rewritten at every hop with the next rout
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