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Glossary: TCP/IP in Depth, Part 1

summary route

Also written: supernet, summarization, collapse_addresses

One route that covers several neighboring subnets that together fill one block, such as 10.20.0.0/22 for the whole roastery. Python's `collapse_addresses` merges subnets into summaries.

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Related terms

VLSM (variable length subnet masks)prefixrouting table