Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia
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Summary Subnetting, and its more modern cousin CIDR, represent the state of the art in IP addressing design. If you intend to do much work with IP addressing, I suggest you familiarize yourself completely with its structure. Otherwise, it will suffice to keep the following points in mind:

For further reading on Subnetting and CIDR, I recommend reviewing the following links:

In later sections of the course, we'll see how IP addresses are used by routing protocols to provide global Internet connectivity.


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Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia
Summary