Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A system of interconnections within a communications system that allows the components to communicate directly with each other.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun topology The
abstraction of asequence . - noun networking A portion of a
network which shares a network address in which each component is identified by a subnet number. - verb networking To break a network into subnets.
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Examples
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If you have a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0, then your subnet is the first three sets of numbers and the network address is the last number.
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Virtual Private Cloud, which enables an enterprise to segment access to a portion of Amazon's cloud with access control and security enforcements (such as subnet, encrypted VPN).
ReadWriteWeb Mike Kirkwood 2010
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The next one is a test subnet, which is isolated from the random traffic of the development area but looser than the production area, "Miller said.
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There is potentially one more step, and that happens when the Mathematica installation you interact with is on a different subnet from your gridMathematica Servers.
Wolfram Blog : Plug-and-Play Mathematica with Wolfram Lightweight Grid System 2009
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In that case, you tell Mathematica the name of just one computer on the other subnet, and Mathematica pulls in the names of all the others automatically.
Wolfram Blog : Plug-and-Play Mathematica with Wolfram Lightweight Grid System 2009
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However, that method applied to 10 routers in a row means having a separate subnet for each upward route, and each lower route as you approach the destination.
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NetSetMan creates profiles for different networks including variables like: IP address, subnet mask, DNS server, workgroup and domain, default printer and so on.
NetSetMan Manages Multiple Network Profiles | Lifehacker Australia 2008
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I felt that the best solution would be to use WDS and essentially bridge our networks, putting them on the same subnet.
DD-WRT: Setting up a home Wireless Distribution System (WDS) — Meandering Passage 2007
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Analog can deliver content so we could use old TV spectrum as CB radio subnet using cheap wifi gear.
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Since a lot of my servers are all on the same subnet, sometimes that can be unsatisfying.
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