Do you mean route in an active sense, as in “if you get this address send it to ABC to let him figure it out”, or do you mean route in a passive sense, as in like the results from a tracerte command?
There’s a good reason 9 out of 10 network engineers will tell you if they were to redesign the internet, they’d chuck ethernet/tcpip in the dumpster...
It’s Hardware!
No! It’s Software!!!
No, actually, sometimes it IS hardware!!!
ARRRRGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!
I meant “route” in the sense of “If I get this destination address on an incoming packet I’ll send it out that particular port over there, which I have been told, or have figured out on my own, is where it should go.”