Mission 022

Engineer Briefing

In Mission 021, you learned that routers connect different networks.

You discovered that routers make forwarding decisions using:

• IP addresses.
• Routing tables.
• Network paths.

However, there is an important question:

How does a router know where to send a packet?

A router does not automatically know every network in existence.

A router must learn about networks.

There are different ways routers learn paths:

1. Connected routes.
2. Static routes.
3. Dynamic routing protocols.

In this mission, we begin with the simplest method:

Static Routing.

Mission Objectives