IP network
A
subnet or the sub network is a logical and visible subdivision of the IP
network. In fact, dividing the network in to two or more networks is known as
the subnetting process.
In
fact, the subnet is the responsible for delivering the datagrams to the certain
range of the IP address. However, it is an extension of this concept of the
splitting fields that are in the A, B and C classes. In addition to that, the
network part can also be extended to include some bit from the part of the
host. As the way, the counting of bits that are interpreted as the subnet
number is called as the subnet mask or the net mask. In fact, this is the 32
bit number and it can specify the bit mask for the network of the IP address.
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