ISC2 Exam SSCP Topic 9 Question 31 Discussion

With source routing, the packets hold the forwarding information so that they can find their way to the destination themselves without bridges and routers dictating their paths.

In computer networking, source routing allows a sender of a packet to specify the route the packet takes through the network.

With source routing the entire path to the destination is known to the sender and is included when sending data. Source routing differs from most other routing in that the source makes most or all of the routing decisions for each router along the way.

Source:

WALLHOFF, John, CISSP Summary 2002, April 2002, CBK#2 Telecommunications and Network Security (page 5)

Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Source_Routing