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Re: Stupid Question maybe?


From: Thomas Bellman <bellman () nsc liu se>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 21:11:39 +0100

On 2018-12-19 20:47 MET, valdis.kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

There was indeed a fairly long stretch of time (until the CIDR RFC came out and
specifically said it wasn't at all canon) where we didn't have an RFC that
specifically said that netmask bits had to be contiguous.

How did routers select the best (most specific) route for an address?
If the routing table held both (e.g.) 10.20.30.0/255.255.255.64 and
10.20.30.0/255.255.255.32, then 10.20.30.97 would match both, and have
the same number of matching bits.

        /Bellman

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