Routing: Choosing the best pathways since 1976!
(Image Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/routers/what-is-routing.html) Routing basically means ‘to route’. The aim of the routing process is to provide a way out for the network traffic to reach from the source to the destination and this destination can vary from 1 to multiple locations. Thus, Routing can be defined as the path/route for network traffic flow from the source to the destinations, being both in same network or different networks. Routing is controlled by the Router and router is the device which actually defines the whole path for routing. Routing Process: Routing depends on various factors like Administrative distance, ASN, Interface, next hop and mainly on Destination Network. Whenever the traffic flows out from the source and reach to the Router, the router at first check the destination IPv4 or IPv6 address and then proceed further by checking the Forward Information Base or FIB which consists of 3 main elements and