• SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Does each provider have their own? Most of the ones I’ve had your local network was 192.168.0.1, but my recent one is 10.0.0.1.

    It’s all just modem access I’m guessing in the end and they can choose mostly what they want?

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      No, 127.0.0.1 is the loop back, so it doesn’t even leave the machine and doesn’t need to be connected to any network.

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      127.0.0.1 is a special IP address that loops back to the device itself.

      For local area networks there are 3 groups of private IPv4 address spaces

      192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255

      Basically you can use any address range in any of those 3 ranges, ones in the 192.168.x.y block have been pretty common for home routers for a while.

      Normally you can change the address ranges set in the router if there’s a particular range you want to use.

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      Those are non-routed IP blocks. 127.0.0.1 is the machine you’re on, the localhost.