Hussein Nasser

How the Internet works:

1) If the target IP X is within any of your networks, lookup X's MAC and send the packet to it directly

2) If not, find a nexthop device within your network that knows how to reach X. Look up their MAC and send the packet to nexthop.

3) Repeat til X gets it

Step 2 is done with routing table, that gets updated by various protocols so that cost is involved ( shortest path, highest bandwidth )

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