itemprop="text"> I'm new to networking and am trying to get my terminology straight. I've Google this question but haven't found anything that clearly explains it. itemprop="text"> class="normal">Answer I'm not sure that there is an official definition of "netblock", but in common usage, I've most frequently heard it used in reference to an IP address allocation assigned by an href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Internet_registry" rel="noreferrer">RIR to another organization. "Subnet", on the other hand, is a more broad networking concept, used when referring to a portion of the IP addresses that are part of a larger network scope. So, to use these terms together, I will use this fictitious situation: ...