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  2. Packet forwarding - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_forwarding

    Much of the design effort of high-speed routers and switches has been focused on making rapid forwarding decisions for large numbers of packets. The forwarding decision is generally made using one of two processes: routing, which uses information encoded in a device's address to infer its location on the network, or bridging, which makes no ...

  3. IP routing - Wikipedia

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    IP forwarding algorithms in most routing software determine a route through a shortest path algorithm. In routers, packets arriving at an interface are examined for source and destination addressing and queued to the appropriate outgoing interface according to their destination address and a set of rules and performance metrics.

  4. Routing - Wikipedia

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    In packet switching networks, routing is the higher-level decision making that directs network packets from their source toward their destination through intermediate network nodes by specific packet forwarding mechanisms. Packet forwarding is the transit of network packets from one network interface to another. Intermediate nodes are typically ...

  5. Router (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Control plane: A router maintains a routing table that lists which route should be used to forward a data packet, and through which physical interface connection. It does this using internal pre-configured directives, called static routes , or by learning routes dynamically using a routing protocol.

  6. Routing table - Wikipedia

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    The primary function of a router is to forward a packet toward its destination network, which is the destination IP address of the packet. To do this, a router needs to search the routing information stored in its routing table. The routing table contains network/next hop associations.

  7. Network layer - Wikipedia

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    The network layer provides the means of transferring variable-length network packets from a source to a destination host via one or more networks. Within the service layering semantics of the OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) network architecture, the network layer responds to service requests from the transport layer and issues service requests to the data link layer.

  8. Data plane - Wikipedia

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    Cisco VIP 2-40, from an older generation of routers. Performance Route Processor, from the high-end Cisco 12000 series.. In routing, the data plane, sometimes called the forwarding plane or user plane, defines the part of the router architecture that decides what to do with packets arriving on an inbound interface.

  9. Forwarding information base - Wikipedia

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    A forwarding information base (FIB), also known as a forwarding table or MAC table, is most commonly used in network bridging, routing, and similar functions to find the proper output network interface controller to which the input interface should forward a packet. It is a dynamic table that maps MAC addresses to ports.