subnet
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of subnet
Example Sentences
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By putting guest traffic in a different subnet, guests will not be able to communicate with devices on your network.
From Slate • Apr. 24, 2020
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
It scans packets and all of the traffic on the subnet.
From Forbes • Jun. 27, 2011
Before you begin, contact your Internet service provider to get your account's IP address and other numbered settings, such as subnet mask, default gateway and DNS addresses.
From Time Magazine Archive
For example, all of the computers for Wesleyan University in the U.S.A. are in the subnet 129.133, while the number in the previous paragraph represents a full address to one of the university's computers.
From The Online World by De Presno, Odd
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