A system, method, and computer readable medium for mobile ad hoc network routing based upon a hardware address that comprises, identifying a destination node hardware address of a data packet that is outbound from a host node, searching a host node routing table for a destination node route from the host node to the destination node hardware address, routing the data packet to the destination node route in the event that the host node routing table returns a destination node hardware address, appending a flooding packet to the data packet in the event that the host node routing table returns a null destination node hardware address, and broadcasting the data packet to at least one neighbor node if the data packet has the flooding packet appended to it.