Forwarding is hop-by-hop

• Each router can only communicate directly with devices which are on the same networks that it is connected to (Layer 2)
• Each router gets the datagram one hop closer to the destination
• Each router makes an independent decision as to the next hop (the route is not pre-planned)
• Each router has a different view of the world so has a different forwarding table

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