Routing tables in a router maps ports on the router to the networks that they connect. The following table is a routing table. These tables allow us to investigate the path that the network traffic takes while traveling through various devices:
Most of the routers have inbuilt packet filters and firewall capabilities as well. This means that they can be configured to log denied or certain types of traffic traveling to and from the network.
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