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A router that has the routing table in Figure 8-11 receives an incoming IPv4 packet. The...

A router that has the routing table in Figure 8-11 receives an incoming IPv4 packet. The source IPv4 address in the arriving packet is 10.55.72.234. The des-tination IPv4 address is 10.4.6.7. The TTL value is 1. The Protocol Field value is 6. What will the router do with this packet? (Hint: Carefully consider all the fields in the IP and TCP headers. Think like a router.)

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When a router receives a packet, it will reduce the TTL and send it to the next hop. But when the TTL is 1, router will discard the packet and will send the ICMP unreachable back to the sender.

* This method to used to find the number of hops between a sender and the destination.

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