When you’re subnetting an IP address for a network you have two options: classful and classless. Classful subnetting is the simplest method. It tends to be the most wasteful because it uses more addresses than are necessary. In classful subnetting you use the same subnet mask for each subnet, and all the subnets have the same number of addresses in them. Classless addressing allows you to use different subnet masks and create subnets tailored to the number of users in each group. This technique is referred to as VLSM
