CLASSLESS INTER-DOMAIN

ROUTING (CIDR)

COURSE: NETWORK DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION

PRESENTED BY: FORBEWING KEVIN BLAISE
CLASSLESS INTER-DOMAIN ROUTING
is a method for allocating IP addresses and IP routing. The CIDR was
introduce in 1993 to replace the previous addressing architecture
of classful networks design in the internet. Its goal was to slow the
growth of routing tables on routers across the Internet, and to help slow
the rapid exhaustion of IPv4 addresses.
IP addresses are described as consisting of two groups of bits in the
address: the most significant bits are the network address which
identifies a whole network or subnet, and the least significant
bits set forms the host identifier, which specifies a particular
interface of a host on that network. This division is used as the basis
of traffic routing between IP networks and for address allocation
policies. Classful network design for IPv4 sized the network address
as one or more 8-bit groups, resulting in the blocks of Class A, B, or
C addresses. Classless Inter-Domain Routing allocates address space
to internet service provider and end users on any
address bits boundary, instead of on 8-bit segments
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First deployed in 1994, CIDR dramatically improves IPv4s
scalability and efficiency by providing the following:
Eliminates traditional Class A, B, C addresses allowing
for more efficient allocation of IPv4 address space.
Supporting route aggregation (summarization), also
known as supernetting, where thousands of routes could
be represented by a single route in the routing table.
Route aggregation also helps prevent route flapping
on Internet routers using BGP. Flapping routes can
be a serious concern with Internet core routers.
CIDR allows routers to aggregate, or summarize, routing
information and thus shrink the size of their routing tables.
Just one address and mask combination can represent
the routes to multiple networks.
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By using a prefix address to summarizes routes, administrators can
keep routing table entries manageable, which means the following
More efficient routing

A reduced number of CPU cycles when recalculating a routing

table, or when sorting through the routing table entries to find a
match
Reduced router memory requirements

Route summarization is also known as:

Route aggregation

Supernetting

Supernetting is essentially the inverse of subnetting.

CIDR moves the responsibility of allocation addresses away from a
centralized authority (InterNIC).
Instead, ISPs can be assigned blocks of address space, which they
can then parcel out to customers.
CIDR RESTRICTIONS
Dynamic routing protocols must send network
address and mask (prefix-length) information in
their routing updates.
In other words, CIDR requires classless routing
protocols such as (RIPv2, OSPF BGP4) etc. for
dynamic routing.