Route Summarization(Supernetting)

Automatic Summarization

•          Advantages of automatic summarization:

                        -The size of routing updates is reduced

                        -Single routes are used to represent multiple routes       which results in faster lookup in the routing table.

•          Disadvantage of Automatic Summarization:

                        -Does not support discontiguous networks

Summarization

Route Summarization(Supernetting)