route

networking /root/ The sequence of hosts, routers,

bridges, gateways, and other devices that network traffic

takes, or could take, from its source to its destination. As

a verb, to determine the link down which to send a packet,

that will minimise its total journey time according to some

routeing algorithm.

You can find the route from your computer to another using the

program traceroute on Unix or tracert on MicrosoftWindows.

(2001-05-26)