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Glossary: Hardening, Firewalls and Intrusion Detection

Subnet

Also written: subnets, /24

A range of IP addresses, such as 10.20.0.0/24, given to one segment so the router and firewall rules can tell the segments apart.

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Related terms

VLAN (virtual local area network)SegmentationIP (Internet Protocol)