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There is some stray text in italics above the first table and the text (about loopback, etc.) below the table doesn't make sense.
The article mentions /64 for residential customers, and yes for those with a single home network, that would be right. But some need more than one network in the home. Comcast, at least, will assign a /60 for residential customers to allow for that. I don't know that others do that, but as I understand it, that is the way it is supposed to be done. Should the article mention this? Gah4 ( talk) 09:16, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
The article mostly misses the whole idea behind subnets and subnet addressing. That is, from outside the organization only the whole network address is needed. That greatly simplifies (reduces the size of) routing tables. Before subnet addressing, organizations would slowly collect more and more class C (/24) addresses, which would need to be added to routing tables everywhere. The other system used for subnetting, without subnet addressing, is Proxy ARP. In the case of proxy-ARP, hosts believe that they are on one large (often /16) Ethernet, as routers answer ARP requests fooling hosts into believing that the router is actually the destination. 100 or so hosts is about the largest you want a single Ethernet to be. Gah4 ( talk) 09:35, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
I used to know about Appletalk phase 2, but haven't thought about it for a while. There is also DECnet. It would seem that subnets are a good idea, and that other network systems would also use them. Gah4 ( talk) 02:55, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved. Subnet has been agreed upon here as the common name ( closed by non-admin page mover) ASUKITE 15:09, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
Subnetwork → Subnet – Per WP:COMMONNAME. PhotographyEdits ( talk) 11:17, 28 June 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. Zippybonzo | Talk (he|him) 15:21, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
the correct wordhere -- rather, it is a sort of hypercorrection. Even the RFC 950 refers to it as "subnet", along with the vast body of literature. No such user ( talk) 11:37, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
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On 28 June 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved from Subnetwork to Subnet. The result of the discussion was moved. |
There is some stray text in italics above the first table and the text (about loopback, etc.) below the table doesn't make sense.
The article mentions /64 for residential customers, and yes for those with a single home network, that would be right. But some need more than one network in the home. Comcast, at least, will assign a /60 for residential customers to allow for that. I don't know that others do that, but as I understand it, that is the way it is supposed to be done. Should the article mention this? Gah4 ( talk) 09:16, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
The article mostly misses the whole idea behind subnets and subnet addressing. That is, from outside the organization only the whole network address is needed. That greatly simplifies (reduces the size of) routing tables. Before subnet addressing, organizations would slowly collect more and more class C (/24) addresses, which would need to be added to routing tables everywhere. The other system used for subnetting, without subnet addressing, is Proxy ARP. In the case of proxy-ARP, hosts believe that they are on one large (often /16) Ethernet, as routers answer ARP requests fooling hosts into believing that the router is actually the destination. 100 or so hosts is about the largest you want a single Ethernet to be. Gah4 ( talk) 09:35, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
I used to know about Appletalk phase 2, but haven't thought about it for a while. There is also DECnet. It would seem that subnets are a good idea, and that other network systems would also use them. Gah4 ( talk) 02:55, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved. Subnet has been agreed upon here as the common name ( closed by non-admin page mover) ASUKITE 15:09, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
Subnetwork → Subnet – Per WP:COMMONNAME. PhotographyEdits ( talk) 11:17, 28 June 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. Zippybonzo | Talk (he|him) 15:21, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
the correct wordhere -- rather, it is a sort of hypercorrection. Even the RFC 950 refers to it as "subnet", along with the vast body of literature. No such user ( talk) 11:37, 3 July 2023 (UTC)