3. the next hop in the routing table becomes the node from which the RREQ was received (it is obtained from the source IP address in the IP header and is often not equal to the Originator IP Address field in the RREQ message);
3. the next hop in the routing table becomes the node from which the RREQ was received (it is obtained from the source IP address in the IP header and is often not equal to the Originator IP Address field in the RREQ message);