Configuring IP Routing in the Network
The network is good to go—right? After all, it's been correctly configured with IP addressing, administrative functions, and even clocking (automatically on the ISR routers). But how does a router send packets to remote networks when the only way it can send them is by looking at the routing table to find out how to get to the remote networks? The configured routers have information only about directly connected networks in each routing table. And what happens when a router receives a packet for a network that isn't listed in the routing table? It doesn't send a broadcast looking for the remote network—the router just discards it. Period.
So, I'm not exactly ready to rock after all. But no worries—there are ...
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