I don't know for certain, but I would guess no.

For example, a hardware router that routes computer traffic does not archive information it passes and routes. Besides, this would slow down it's routing ability too much.


It merely procesees the packet using level three of the OSI network model.
It doesn't need to know the data in the packet above layer 3.

The next router in line processes the packet using level three of the OSI network model also.