Routing - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

and 224.0.0.6. Two are used by Router Discovery messages to multicast router
advertisements and solicitation messages. These addresses are 224.0.0.1 and
224.0.0.2. RIP II uses multicast address 224.0.0.9.

Routing

The term routing refers to the transmission of a datagram from one node to
another on the same or a different network. The route refers to the path that is
chosen to transmit an IP datagram from its origin to its destination, based on
the IP addresses contained in the datagram.
When a datagram is sent to a node on another network, the network portions
of the source and the destination IP addresses are different. When the packet
is received by a router that connects the source to the destination network, the
router forwards the packet on the correct interface to reach the destination, as
shown in Figure 14 on page 36. Two networks are connected if at least one
router is attached to both networks.
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Understanding