Warning: remote host identification has changed!

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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@    WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!     @
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IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
It is also possible that a host key has just been changed.
The fingerprint for the ED25519 key sent by the remote host is
SHA256:3Vq1rCcuQkLVti8CkhYLb7JSG9W03nVF/EGlFzSyjCs.
Please contact your system administrator.
Add correct host key in C:\\Users\\Admin/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message.
Offending ED25519 key in C:\\Users\\Admin/.ssh/known_hosts:1
ED25519 host key for 192.168.1.1 has changed and you have requested strict checking.
Host key verification failed.
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Was there a question somewhere in there?

https://www.google.com/search?q=REMOTE+HOST+IDENTIFICATION+HAS+CHANGED

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Common after doing a TFTP server recovery.

I simply acknowledge the message and continue, since I know why it was triggered.

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