Question

A router's IP routing table has the following entries:

Network Next Hop
192.168.1.0 10.1.1.1
192.168.2.0 10.2.2.2
To which next hop IP address will the router forward a packet destined for 192.168.2.10?
a) 10.1.1.1
b) 10.2.2.2
c) The router will drop the packet
d) 192.168.2.10

Answer 1

The router will forward a packet destined for 192.168.2.10 to the next hop IP address 10.2.2.2, as this destination IP falls within the network range of 192.168.2.0 according to the routing table.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine to which next hop IP address the router will forward a packet destined for 192.168.2.10, we need to look at the IP routing table entries you have provided. According to the table, the router has two routes:

• 192.168.1.0 with a next hop of 10.1.1.1
• 192.168.2.0 with a next hop of 10.2.2.2

Each entry in the routing table indicates the next hop address to which the router should forward packets destined for a specific network. Given that the destination IP address 192.168.2.10 falls within the network range of 192.168.2.0, the packet will be forwarded to next hop IP address 10.2.2.2.