CIDR - networking

[Nick Davey]

Older protocols that were classful, such as RIP v1 did not transmit  
the subnet mask with the IP address, however there were still subnet  
masks of 255.0.0.0, 255.255.0.0, etc.

On 10-Jan-06, at 7:41 PM, James Knott wrote:

> Joseph wrote:
>> The class should never be determined by the mask but by the range  
>> in which
>> the ip address falls.
>
> I thought that the old class addresses didn't have a sub net mask and
> it's that SNM, the enables classless addresses.  That is, no mask,  
> no CIDR.
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