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    CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) is an IP addressing scheme that improves address allocation by allowing for blocks of addresses to be assigned in variable sizes rather than the fixed class A, B, C blocks. This helped extend the life of IPv4 and reduced routing table growth. Under CIDR, IP addresses can be assigned in any block size through the use of slash notation, which more efficiently allocates addresses and reduces wasted space compared to classful addressing.

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    CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) is an IP addressing scheme that improves address allocation by allowing for blocks of addresses to be assigned in variable sizes rather than the fixed class A, B, C blocks. This helped extend the life of IPv4 and reduced routing table growth. Under CIDR, IP addresses can be assigned in any block size through the use of slash notation, which more efficiently allocates addresses and reduces wasted space compared to classful addressing.

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    CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) is an IP addressing scheme that improves address allocation by allowing for blocks of addresses to be assigned in variable sizes rather than the fixed class A, B, C blocks. This helped extend the life of IPv4 and reduced routing table growth. Under CIDR, IP addresses can be assigned in any block size through the use of slash notation, which more efficiently allocates addresses and reduces wasted space compared to classful addressing.

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    CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) is an IP addressing scheme that improves address allocation by allowing for blocks of addresses to be assigned in variable sizes rather than the fixed class A, B, C blocks. This helped extend the life of IPv4 and reduced routing table growth. Under CIDR, IP addresses can be assigned in any block size through the use of slash notation, which more efficiently allocates addresses and reduces wasted space compared to classful addressing.

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    What is CIDR?

    CIDR, which stands for Classless Inter-Domain Routing, is an IP addressing scheme that improves the
    allocation of IP addresses. It replaces the old system based on classes A, B, and C. This scheme also
    helped greatly extend the life of IPv4 as well as slow the growth of routing tables.

    With Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR), IP assignments are not limited to the three classes.
    The whole unicast range (any IP address with a first octet of 0 – 223) can be allocated in any size
    block. In effect, the whole concept of IP address classes is done away with entirely.

    Instead of requiring the IP assignment from the RIRs to be either


    a 255.0.0.0 or 255.255.0.0 or 255.255.255.0 block, they could be any size — and for simplicity, slash
    notation was adopted.
    ▪ If you need 300 IP addresses … You get a /23.
    ▪ If you need 500 IP addresses … You also get a /23.
    ▪ If you need 1000 IP addresses … You get a /22.
    ▪ If you need 25,000 IP addresses … You get a /17.
    ▪ If you need 70,000 IP addresses … You get a /15.
    ▪ If you need 250,000 IP addresses … You get a /14 (instead of the ~16 million IP
    addresses from the /8 block that would have been assigned in the Classful world).

    This creates a system in which IP address ranges are assigned with a much, much smaller rate of
    wasted IP addresses.

    What is Classful?

    The idea behind Classful address assignments was, if you were a company that …
    ▪ … needed 200 IP addresses, a /24 IP address block from the Class C range would be
    assigned.
    ▪ … needed 50,000 IP addresses, a /16 IP address block from the Class B range would be
    assigned.
    ▪ … needed over 65,000~ IP addresses, a /8 IP address block from the Class A range
    would be assigned.

    However, this led to a lot of wasted IP addresses. If, for instance, you only needed 300 IP addresses,
    a Class C would not suffice, so you would end up with a Class B and nearly 60,000 IP addresses would
    be wasted. In classless routing, hello messages are used for checking status. In classless routing,
    subnet mask is not same throughout, it may vary for all devices, we can see it in the given picture.

    Classful vs Classless routing

    Classful Routing Classless Routing


    While in classless routing, VLMS
    In classful routing, VLMS (Variable Length Subnet
    (Variable Length Subnet Mask) is
    Mask) is not supported.
    supported.
    Classful routing requires more bandwidth. While it requires less bandwidth.
    While in classless routing, hello
    In classful routing, hello messages are not used.
    messages are used.
    Classful routing does not import subnet mask. Whereas it imports subnet mask.
    While in classless routing, address is
    In classful routing, address is divided into three parts
    divided into two parts which are:
    which are: Network, Subnet and Host.
    Subnet and Host.
    In classful routing, regular or periodic updates are Whereas in this, triggered updates are
    used. used
    While in classless routing, CIDR
    In classful routing, CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain
    (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) is
    Routing) is not supported.
    supported.
    While in classless routing, fault
    In classful routing, fault can be detected easily.
    detection is little tough.

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