Answer to Question #188899 in Computer Networks for masum mushfiq

Question

Design a network Scenario by yourself (Do not use the scenarios presented in the textbook or in

the lecture) where longest mask matching can be used to reduce the size of Routing table. Draw

the network scenario with proper IP addresses and subnet masks. And explain how longest mask

matching is helping here to reduce the routing table size and what would happen if we were not

following longest mask matching technique.

Answer 1

Network scenario: