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Why is your home network 192.168.1.1? The 1994 address war behind it
Three blocks of addresses were quietly set aside in 1994 with no explanation for the numbers, an opposition RFC titled 'Considered Harmful' predicted decades of pain, and the lead objector ended up co-signing the winning standard. Your router's default address is the armistice line.
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