GATE | GATE-CS-2004 | Question 55
The routing table of a router is shown below:
Destination Sub net mask Interface
128.75.43.0 255.255.255.0 Eth0
128.75.43.0 255.255.255.128 Eth1
192.12.17.5 255.255.255.255 Eth3
default Eth2
On which interfaces will the router forward packets addressed to destinations 128.75.43.16 and 192.12.17.10 respectively?
(A) Eth1 and Eth2
(B) Eth0 and Eth2
(C) Eth0 and Eth3
(D) Eth1 and Eth3
Answer: (A)
Explanation: To find the interface, we need to do AND of incoming IP address and Subnet mask. Compare the result of AND with the destination. Note that if there is a match between multiple Destinations, then we need to select the destination with longest length subnet mask.
128.75.43.16, matches with 128.75.43.0 and 128.75.43.0, the packet is forwarded to Eth1 as length of subnet mask in Eth11 is more.
If a result is not matching with any of the given destinations then the packet is forwarded to the default interface (here Eth2). Therefore the packet’s addressed to 192.12.17.10 will be forwarded to Eth2.
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