5.3. Implementing Sites and Subnets
Now that you have an idea of the goals of replication, look at the following quick overview of the various Active Directory objects that are related to physical network topology.
The basic objects that are used for managing replication include the following:
Subnets
A subnet is a partition of a network. As we started to discuss earlier, subnets are logical IP blocks usually connected to other IP blocks through the use of routers and other network devices. All of the computers that are located on a given subnet are generally well connected with each other.
NOTE
It is extremely important to understand the concepts of TCP/IP and the routing of network information when you are designing the topology for Active ...
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