November 1999
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
15h 3m
English
As the popularity of the Internet has grown, it has become the global media for the transfer of information.
However, as popularity increased, new problems continued to appear. Small organizations applied for IP addresses, but providing them all with a class A or class B address was not feasible. Instead, these organizations were assigned class C addresses, or, in a large number of cases, multiple class Cs. With such a large distribution of IP addresses, the routing table on the Internet began to grow exponentially. This is the reason CIDR entered the arena.
The following issues led to CIDR:
Lack of midsize address space and exhaustion of the class B network address space. Class C is quite small (with 254 hosts), ...
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