Explain the differences between Classful and classless protocol?

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Posted On: Feb 22, 2018

Classful: Classful routing protocols do not advertise the subnet mask information. For the Classful protocol, the subnets being used must be of the same length for the major network number. It can’t support discontiguous network prefixes.
Classless: The protocol of Classless routing advertise is the subnet mask information along with the network prefixes.

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