27 Apr
2016
27 Apr
'16
10:07 a.m.
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Sean Conner wrote:
One benefit of contiguous subnet masks is that it
makes routing faster.
It's still a linear search, but it's based on the average length of the
netmask instead of the total number of entries.
That sounds similar to the idea of route summarization. Without it, core
routers wouldn't be able to do what they do fast enough, as you probably
are already well aware.
http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/definition/route-summarization
-Swift