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Classful Vs Classless Address
Hello friends in this post i am again going to tell you some more interesting concepts of networking.In
this post i am going to tell you what is the difference between classfull and classless address.
Classful addressing: In the classful addressing system all the IP addresses that are available are divided
into the five classes A,B,C,D and E, in which class A,B and C address are frequently used because class D
is for Multicast and is rarely used and class E is reserved and is not currently used.Each of the IP address
belongs to a particular class that's why they are classful addresses.Earlier this addressing system did not
have any name,but when classless addressing system came into existence then it is named as Classful
addressing system.The main disadvantage of classful addressing is that it limited the flexibility and
number of addresses that can be assigned to any device.One of the major disadvantage of classful
addressing is that it does not send subnet information but it will send the complete network address.
The router will supply its own subnet mask based on its locally configured subnets. As long as you have
the same subnet mask and the network is contiguous, you can use subnets of a classful network
address.
Classless Addressing: Classless addressing system is also known as CIDR(Classless Inter-Domain
Routing).Classless addressing is a way to allocate and specify the Internet addresses used in inter-
domain routing more flexibly than with the original system of Internet Protocol (IP) address
classes.What happened in classful addressing is that if any company needs more than 254 host
machines but far fewer than the 65,533 host addresses then the only option for the company is to take
the class B address.Now suppose company needs only 1000 IP addresses for its host computers then in
this (65533-1000=64533) IP addresses get wasted.For this reason, the Internet was, until the arrival of
CIDR, running out of address space much more quickly than necessary. CIDR effectively solved the
problem by providing a new and more flexible way to specify network addresses in routers.A CIDR
network address looks like this:
192.30.250.00/15
The "192.30.250.00" is the network address itself and the "15" says that the first 15 bits are the network
part of the address, leaving the last 17 bits for specific host addresses.One more advantage of classless
addressing is that classless protocol sends subnet information. This allows you to create discontiguous
networks with any given classful network address.
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Classful and classless addressing

  • 1. Classful Vs Classless Address Hello friends in this post i am again going to tell you some more interesting concepts of networking.In this post i am going to tell you what is the difference between classfull and classless address. Classful addressing: In the classful addressing system all the IP addresses that are available are divided into the five classes A,B,C,D and E, in which class A,B and C address are frequently used because class D is for Multicast and is rarely used and class E is reserved and is not currently used.Each of the IP address belongs to a particular class that's why they are classful addresses.Earlier this addressing system did not have any name,but when classless addressing system came into existence then it is named as Classful addressing system.The main disadvantage of classful addressing is that it limited the flexibility and number of addresses that can be assigned to any device.One of the major disadvantage of classful addressing is that it does not send subnet information but it will send the complete network address. The router will supply its own subnet mask based on its locally configured subnets. As long as you have the same subnet mask and the network is contiguous, you can use subnets of a classful network address.
  • 2. Classless Addressing: Classless addressing system is also known as CIDR(Classless Inter-Domain Routing).Classless addressing is a way to allocate and specify the Internet addresses used in inter- domain routing more flexibly than with the original system of Internet Protocol (IP) address classes.What happened in classful addressing is that if any company needs more than 254 host machines but far fewer than the 65,533 host addresses then the only option for the company is to take the class B address.Now suppose company needs only 1000 IP addresses for its host computers then in this (65533-1000=64533) IP addresses get wasted.For this reason, the Internet was, until the arrival of CIDR, running out of address space much more quickly than necessary. CIDR effectively solved the problem by providing a new and more flexible way to specify network addresses in routers.A CIDR network address looks like this: 192.30.250.00/15 The "192.30.250.00" is the network address itself and the "15" says that the first 15 bits are the network part of the address, leaving the last 17 bits for specific host addresses.One more advantage of classless addressing is that classless protocol sends subnet information. This allows you to create discontiguous networks with any given classful network address.