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Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR / ˈ s aɪ d ər, ˈ s ɪ-/) is a method for allocating IP addresses for IP routing.The Internet Engineering Task Force introduced CIDR in 1993 to replace the previous classful network addressing architecture on the Internet.
A wildcard mask is a mask of bits that indicates which parts of an IP address are available for examination. In the Cisco IOS, [1] they are used in several places, for example:
The number of available subnets is 2 n, where n is the number of bits used for the network portion of the address. There is an exception to this rule for 31-bit subnet masks, [ 11 ] which means the host identifier is only one bit long for two permissible addresses.