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Route Summarization

We often take network routing for granted, but in an instance, it could bring down the whole of the Internet. Along with IP, TCP, Ethernet and ARP, it was the thing that allowed the Internet to scale up. With this, I can turn my computer on, and almost instantly it can be part of the Internet and discovered if required. Without routing we would need a large database of look-up addresses, and every time you connected you would have to make sure that you…