What could be the cause of the problem?

Refer to the exhibit.

A technician pastes the configurations in the exhibit into the two new routers shown. Otherwise, the routers are configured with their default configurations.

A ping from Host1 to Host 2 fails, but the technician is able to ping the S0/0 interface of R2 from Host 1. The configurations of the hosts have been verified as correct.

What could be the cause of the problem?
A . The serial cable on R1 needs to be replaced.
B . The interfaces on R2 are not configured properly
C . R1 has no route to the 192.168.1.128 network.
D . The IP addressing scheme has overlapping subnetworks.
E . The ip subnet-zero command must be configured on both routers.

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Answer: C

Explanation:

Without a static route pointing to host 2 network the router is unaware of the path to take to reach that network and reply traffic cannot be sent.