Route Table Lookup
Intermediate routers lookup only the destination network-ID,
Deliver datagrams to next-hop and finally to destination network, not to host directly
Hierarchical forwarding: routing tables scale.
Table at R2:
Net 1
R1
Net 2
R2
Net 3
R3
Net 4
Destination
Next Hop
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