auto-summarization: classful vs classless routing protocols
- by yorble
Suppose a router R1 is directly connected to the following subnets:
10.1.0.0/24
10.1.1.0/24
10.1.2.0/24
10.1.3.0/24
If it is running RIPv1, it will advertise:
"i have the network 10.0.0.0" (implicitly understood by receiving RIPv1 routers as 10.0.0.0/8 because the protocol is classful)
but suppose we changed the routing protocol to RIPv2 and…