In the above diagram, PC1 is configured with the IP address 192.168.1.2 and subnet mask
255.255.255.0. The router is configured with the IP address 192.168.1.3 and subnet mask

255.255.255.0. When PC1 pings the IP address of the router, the source IP address in the

IP packet is 192.168.1.2 and the destination IP address in the IP packet would be

192.168.1.3. The IP packet is encapsulated in an ethernet frame, which would have the

source mac- address as that of PC1 and destination mac-address as that of the

routers interface configured with the IP address 192.168.1.3. When the packet reaches the

router, the router would look into the destination mac-address inside the frame. After

verification, the router would look into the destination IP address inside the packet. It

would then understand that the packet is intended for itself, and would then process the

upper layer of the packet.