1. Define the term routing. Differentiate static and dynamic routing. Routing (or routeing) is the process of selecting paths in a network along which to send network traffic. Routing is performed for many kinds of networks, including the telephone network, electronic data networks (such as the Internet), and transportation networks. In packet switching networks, routing directs packet forwarding, the transit of logically addressed packets from their source toward their ultimate destination through intermediate nodes ; typically hardware devices called routers , bridges , gateways , firewalls , or switches Static Routing Static routing is not really a protocol, simply the process of manually entering routes into the routing table via a configuration file that is loaded when the routing device starts up. As an alternative, these routes can be enterd by a network administrator who configures the routes . Since these routes don't change after they are configured (unless a human...