Re: PM's support Classless routing (fwd)

alex@itis.net
Fri, 02 May 1997 13:44:53 -0400

Got it, so it can do VLSM, sorry I didn't know the term.

At 10:18 AM 5/2/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Once upon a time alex@itis.net shaped the electrons to say...
>>sorry for the ignorance but what is classless?
>
>Are you familiar with A B and C classs networks? CLASS-based routing
>makes assumptions on this. Subnets must be contiguous, can't do
>variable-length masks, etc.
>
>CLASSLESS routing is newer, and all it cares about is the address and
>netmask - no assumptions based on the network number.
>
>-MZ
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