on 10-17-2008 3:25 PM John spake the following:
I wonder why I cant do that, seeing as have been doing it over 10 years.
One
often misguided approach to setting them up is, facing it directly into
the
open internet. Your as good as gone when someone hits up the ftp port on that shiny new PIX and tunnels right in.
I never heard anyone calling that "subnetting", as a subnet is a differently defined term.
JohnStanley Writes
I agree Subnetting and Subnet are 2 different things in whole. Subnetting is taking an IP and borrowing bits from the ip and making additional net blocks perferably in dotted decimal form is the easiest way. I guess seeing as you (DE Land) and I(US) both are of different nationalities bring up the information devide between us. For the most part we are referring to the same thing but are calling it a diferent name. I do often however have a laugh at times about things on this list from people in Europe. I read posts sometime that mean something totaly different here but then some will answer it where the poster is from and then it kinda begins to make sense.
TCP/IP works the same way no matter what country you are from. The terms are the same, and if someone uses the wrong term, it is not the language difference, that person just learned the wrong term.
A subnet is what you get when you finish subnetting. One is a noun, one is a verb. It can only be done the way it was designed to be done. You can do some very creative things with CIDR now, but that was created more as a way to make smaller routing tables than any other reason.