When a router looks for a route to a destination, it has two ways of
doing it:
The classless way, which is the way most of us think, where the packet
goes out the most specific (i.e. with the most bits in the network)
match.
The classful way, where the router first looks at the major network (as
defined by its class) and then looks for the right subnet within that
network, apparently (according to the answer I'm getting) if it doesn't
find the subnet within the net, it drops the packet.
That said, the commands "ip classless" and "no ip classless" are used to
switch between the modes. I've yet to think a good application for the
classful mode :)
Francisco.
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