ClasslessandSubnetAddressExtensions(CIDR).pptVIP

Classless and Subnet Address Extensions (CIDR) Topics: There are problems with the IP addressing scheme we’ve studied We’ll study some ways to get around these problems Review: IP Addresses Problems with IP Addresses The designers of IP addresses did not foresee the Internet’s tremendous growth Higher overhead to manage network addresses Larger routing tables IP addresses might one day be exhausted Solution to IP Addresses Problems The same IP network prefix can be shared by multiple physical networks A site can choose to assign and use IP addresses in unusual ways internally as long a