Route Summarization


Inclusive Summary Routes


Including subnets that do not currently exist
Find matching bits

Exclusive Summary Routes


excluding all other subnets/routes
split the summary until exclusive (increasing subnet prefix by 1)

Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR)


Improves scalability on Internet routers' routing tables
Route summarization
Geographic region

Protocols


ICMP - 1
TCP - 6
UDP - 17
EIGRP - 88
OSPF - 89
PIM - 103

RFCs


IP - 791
Subnetting - 950
NAT - 1631
Private addressing - 1918
CIDR - 1517-1520