title: Why does traceroute to a device on my network show just one ip address
body: <p>I have a local network here. I am doing traceroute to another system on the same network.
  I was expecting two results.
  One is the hit to my router, and then to the other machine. But I see just one result as follows</p>
  
  <pre><code>1    13 ms   4 ms  12 ms   nj-PC [192.168.1.110]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Why is the information about the router not shown? </p>
  
  <p>1) Does router act as a switch here, or </p>
  
  <p>2) Does it not return the packet if the packet is being forwarded on the same interface? or</p>
  
  <p>3) The packet does not go through the router at all. Once it gets the MAC address of the destination, does it directly send it to the destination? My doubt here is the packet will still go through the router, right? Will it just act as a pass through for these packets?</p>