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Why were the ipv4 private address ranges chosen to be what they are?

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Mar 15, 20262433 views
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Possible Duplicate: Why are home networks prefixed with 192.168? What makes the numbers 192.168 or 10. or 172.16 so special that those addresses, as opposed to other ones, were chosen as the private ipv4 ranges?

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IPV4 defines 5 large IP addressing range classes: Class A: Starts at 0.0.0.0 finishes at 127.255.255.255 Class B: Starts at 128.0.0.0 finishes at 191.255.255.255 Class C: Starts at 192.0.0.0 finishes at 223.255.255.255 Class D: Multicast, so its not…

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