January 2002
Beginner
238 pages
6h 20m
English
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Classful Versus Classless Routing Protocols
Classful routing protocols do not carry subnet masks; classless routing protocols do. Older routing protocols, including RIP and IGRP, are classful. Newer protocols, including RIP-2, EIGRP, and OSPF, are classless. What are the implications of using classful versus classless routing protocols in your networks?
Let’s say that a router R
received a RIP-1 update with the IP address
172.0.0.0. R would assume
that the route being advertised was for the Class B network
172.0.0.0/16. In other words, since the subnet
mask is lacking in the routing update, R assumes
a natural mask of /8, /16, and
/24 for Class A, B, and C addresses, respectively.
The only time a classful routing protocol can associate a mask other
than the natural mask with an update is if R has
a directly connected network with an IP address belonging to the same
class as the IP address received in the update. For example, when
Ames receives an update of
172.16.1.0 from NewYork,
Ames associates a mask of /24
with the update because Ames is able to deduce
the mask from its own interface.
RIP-2 updates carry a subnet mask in each route entry. A routing protocol that carries subnet masks in its updates earns the label “classless routing protocol.” The term “classless” implies that routing decisions are not tied to the class of the IP address -- A, B, or C -- but may be based on any portion of the 32-bit IP address as specified by the mask. Router R could receive an update with the ...
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