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Assume that source S and destination D are connected though two intermediate routers labels R. Determine how many times each packet has to visit the network layer and the data link layer during a transmission form S to D.

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Network layer -4 times and Data link layer -3 times
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Network layer -4 times and Data link layer -4 times
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Network layer -2 times and Data link layer -6 times
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Network layer -4 times and Data link layer -6 times
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The correct option is D Network layer -4 times and Data link layer -6 times
In the layered architecture sender and receiver uses all the 5 layers and router do processing upto the network layer.

So network layer is visited 4 times and data link layer is visited 6 times.

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