Routing Table
- All the routers have their own internal memory called as RAM.
- The all the information a routing table gathers will be stored in RAM of routers.
- A routing table identifies the path for a packet by learning the IP address and other related information from the table and forwards the packet to the desired destination or network.
Routing table has following entities:
- Details of next hop, source address, destination, path details
- IP addresses and subnet mask of the destination host and the network.
- IP addresses of all those routers which are required to reach the destination network.
There are three various procedures for populating a routing table:
- Shortest path routing.
- Link Static routing.
- Dynamic routing.
- Broadcast routing.
- Unicast routing.
- Multicast routing.
- Anycast routing.
