Chapter 2. Addressing & Summarization
Now that you've laid the groundwork to build your network, what's next? Deciding how to allocate addresses. This is simple, right? Just start with one and use them as needed? Not so fast! Allocating addresses is one of the thorniest issues in network design.
If you don't address your network right, you have no hope of scaling to truly large sizes. You might get some growth out of it, but you will hit a wall at some point. This chapter highlights some of the issues you should consider when deciding how to allocate addresses.
Allocating addresses is one of the thorniest issues in network design because:
Address allocation is generally considered an administrative function, and the impact of addressing on network ...
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