Chapter 2. IP Address Planning and Summarization
This chapter covers the following topics:
Understanding IP Addresses—Describes the structure of IP addresses and reviews binary, classful addressing, and the steps to calculate subnets.
Understanding Summarization—Proposes a way to take a list of addresses and convert them into a single summary or to provide a “best fit” set of summaries.
This chapter discusses IP addressing and summarization. It begins with a short review of CCNA concepts, including binary and IP subnetting. It then uses those concepts as a springboard to discuss summarization and address planning.
The first section, “Understanding IP Addresses,” describes the structure of an IPv4 address and provides classful and classless methods ...
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