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`MicrosoftComputer
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`Fully updated with the latest
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`Easy to read, expertly illustrated
`Definitive coverage of hardware,
`software, the Internet, and more!
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`routing «. The process of forwarding packets between
`networks from source to destination. See also dynamic
`routing, static routing.
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`node n. 1. A junction of some type. 2. In networking, a
`device, such as a client computer, a server. or a shared
`printer, that is connected to the network and is capable of
`communicating with other network devices 3» In tree
`structures, a location on the tree that can have links to
`one or more nodes below it Some authors make a dis-
`tinction between node and element, with an element
`being a given data type and a node comprising one or
`more elements as well as any supporting data structures.
`See al it> demen I (definition 1), graph, pointer (definition
`1 ). queue, stack, tree.
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