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Plus over 2 million Class C networks that could include up to 254 hosts each Proposed Solution:ĬIDR is a replacement for the old process of assigning Class A, B and C addresses with a generalized network 'prefix'. Plus 65,000 Class B networks that could include up to 65,534 hosts each Using the old Class A, B, and C addressing scheme the Internet could support the following:ġ26 Class A networks that could include up to 16,777,214 hosts each Another way the old Class A, B, and C addresses were identified was by looking at the first 8 bits of the address and converting it to its decimal equivalent. Each address had two parts: one part to identify a unique network and the second part to identify a unique host in that network.

'classes' of addresses: Class A, Class B and Class C were the most common. There is a maximum number of networks and hosts that can be assigned unique addresses using the IPv4 32-bit long addresses. To help slow the rapid exhaustion of IPv4 addresses.The backbone network nodes only need routing table entries for area codes, each representing huge blocks of individual telephone numbers, not for every unique telephone number. The receiving node then looks at the phone number prefix and routes the call to its subtending network node responsible for that prefix and so on.

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A high level, backbone network node only looks at the area code information and then routes the call to the specific backbone node responsible for that area code. The CIDR addressing scheme also enables 'route aggregation' in which a single high-level route entry can represent many lower-level routes in the global routing tables.The scheme is similar to the telephone network. Hierarchical Routing Aggregation To Minimize Routing Table Entries. If nothing was done the global routing tables would have reached capacity by mid-1994 and all Internet growth would be halted. A few years back it was forecasted that the global backbone Internet routers were fast approaching their limit on the number of routes they could support. As the number of networks on the Internet increased, so did the routes.

Problem with classful addressing:Ī related problem was the rapidly increasing size of the Internet global routing tables. To slow the growth of routing tables on routers.CIDR is a method for allocating IP addresses and routing Internet Protocol packets. CIDR was introduced as an alternative to the Classful IP addressing scheme in year 1993 by IETF(Internet Engineering Task Force).