If a router cannot determine the next hop for a packet, the router will:

The correct answer is A. Forward the packet to the default route. If there is no next hop, the packets are not policy routed. A default route of a computer that is participating in computer networking is the packet forwarding rule (route) taking effect when no other route can be determined for a given Internet Protocol (IP) destination address.

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AForward the packet to the default route.
BSend the packet back to the packet's source.
CBroadcast the packet.
DStore the packet in the memory buffer.

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If there is no next hop, the packets are not policy routed. A default route of a computer that is participating in computer networking is the packet forwarding rule (route) taking effect when no other route can be determined for a given Internet Protocol (IP) destination address.

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