Key Terms

Review the following list of key terms:

  • CIDR— Classless Internet Domain Routing. A technique that allows a block of network IDs to be treated as a single entity.

  • subnet— A logical subdivision of the address space defined by a TCP/IP network ID.

  • subnet mask— Used to assign some of the bits of an IP address to a subnet ID.

  • supernet— Enables you to combine several networks into a larger network.

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