Process of actually transmitting the data packets from one network device to the next hop in their route. This route has been predetermined by the previous routers in the network. (Distributed Bellman-Ford algorithm )Packet Forwarding notionForwarding tableDestination-based forwarding Packet forwardingPacket forwarding is the relaying of packets from one network segment to another by nodes in a computer network. The network layer in the OSI model is responsible for packet forwarding.[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_forwarding