If the Packet Forwarding engine (PFE) does not have a route to the destination address of a packet, which action does it take?

If the Packet Forwarding engine (PFE) does not have a route to the destination address of a packet, which action does it take

a) the PFE floods the packet out of all interfaces

b)the PFE drops the packet and sends an ICMP destination unreacheable notification back to the source device

c) the PFE forwards the packet to the routing engine for further processing

d) the PFE queues the packet and sends a request to the routing engine for layer3 lookup.

Question added by Mahaboob basha Syed , Network Engineer , Pan Kingdom Holding Company
Date Posted: 2015/02/17

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by هاشم المشارقة , Key Account Manager , Advanced United Systems Ltd. ( A member of Taj Holding Group)

I think it will

b)the PFE drops the packet and sends an ICMP destination unreacheable notification back to the source device

by Mohammed Azath , Senior Network Engineer [NOC] , RateMax LLC

b) the PFE drops the packet........

by Noor Hasan , Nework and System admin , International Bank of Yemen

d) the PFE queues the packet and sends a request to the routing engine for layer3 lookup.

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