subnet
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of subnet
Example Sentences
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There are many resources available on networking that explain home subnets in depth, but simply put, a subnet is a set of addresses that a device can communicate with, without any help from a router.
From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2020
The two of you are probably connecting to Facebook from the same IP subnet, or else using Facebook on your cellphones from near-overlapping geocodes.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2015
It scans packets and all of the traffic on the subnet.
From Forbes ● Jun. 27, 2011
Before you start installing anything, make sure you have the following information handy: your broadband connection's IP address, subnet mask, default gateway and DNS IP addresses.
From Time Magazine Archive
For example, all of the computers for Wesleyan University are in the subnet 129.133.
From Zen and the Art of the Internet by Kehoe, Brendan P.
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