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Packet Forwarding To A Local Host

The process varies based on whether the packet is an IPv4 or IPv6 packet

Forward Packet to a Device on a Directly Connected Network

If the route entry indicates that the departure interface is a directly connected network, the packet can be forwarded directly to the destination device

Typically this is an Ethernet LAN

To encapsulate the packet in the Ethernet frame, the router needs to determine the destination MAC address associated with the destination IP address of the packet

192.168.1.0/27

192.168.1.32/27

200.1.1.0/30