3. Explain the purpose of the routing table entries shown in the provided excerpt. What information do these entries contain, and how do they facilitate communication between the LAN subnets?
The routing table entries shown in the excerpt are the entries of subnets connected to the LAN and the IP addresses of the router for each subnet respectively. For e.g. for the given subnets 10.23.2.0/24 and 192.168.45.0/24 , the router's IP addresses are 10.23.2.1 and 192.168.45.1 respectively. If any of the hosts need to communicate something outside their subnet, they convey it via router, because router is the default gateway for all the hosts.
The routing table entries shown in the excerpt represent the subnets connected to the LAN and the corresponding IP addresses of the router for each subnet, such as 10.23.2.0/24 and 192.168.45.0/24, with router IP addresses of 10.23.2.1 and 192.168.45.1, respectively. In this configuration, if any host within these subnets needs to communicate with something outside its own subnet, the router, serving as the default gateway for all hosts, automatically handles the routing of the communication.
