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Noob88
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| Does anyone know how to change your IP address? I'm not really good with networking, and I tried googling it but came up sort of empty handed. |
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luby
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| Posted: 17 Mar 2007 06:54:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Why would you want to change your IP address? |
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Noob88
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| Posted: 17 Mar 2007 06:58:14 pm Post subject: |
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| It isn't an illegal process... is it? I've been reading up on it on the net and everywhere says its perfectly legal. |
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luby
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| Posted: 17 Mar 2007 07:01:01 pm Post subject: |
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| I know it's legal, but it's kind of like moving. It's a pain. Just use a proxy if you want to be anonymous |
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Cure
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| Posted: 17 Mar 2007 07:05:47 pm Post subject: |
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| What kind of router do you have? |
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JoeImp
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Newbie
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| Posted: 18 Mar 2007 01:37:14 pm Post subject: |
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luby wrote: I know it's legal, but it's kind of like moving. It's a pain. Just use a proxy if you want to be anonymous
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Don't use proxy and anonymous as if they're the same thing, they're not. Proxies and anonymizers don't serve the same purpose. An anonymizer can "hide" your ip address, a proxy saves web pages on a network so if a second computer tries to access the same web page as computer one just did, instead of contacting the web server it just displays the same page it already retrieved for user 1. A proxy can also block web pages on a network.
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I think he's just trying to hide his ip while surfing on the net. |
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Arcane Wizard
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Generally, all a proxy is is a channeler of connections.
While doing so it can monitor, manage, or filter traffic.
Monitoring is usually used against you, to log data about your connections or in the worst case personal data and even passwords. Have fun doing online banking through a proxy.
Managing can be all sorts of things from connection pooling to caching.
With filtering you can think of blocking connections or data that meet certain criteria.
An anonymizer is ANY software used to hide personal information while on the internet. A proxy can hide your IP, and most web proxies do, thereby being an anonymizer.
So there's always an issue of trust here, either with the parties you want to hide from in the first place, or the "middleman" (proxy).
However none of this has anything to do with changing your IP address.
To do so you need to release your current IP address, most likely from the configuration page of your modem/router, and then renew the address and you should be given a new one from the pool your ISP has available for you.
Your IP address can however be statically linked to the MAC address of your modem/router, meaning you'd just get your old IP again. Then you either have to change the MAC address somehow or personally request to have your IP changed by your ISP.
If you have no DHCP enabled router in the network between your modem and your PC, you may be able to release the IP address from the PC itself.
In Windows:
ipconfig /release
And then renew to get a new address:
ipconfig /renew
However, it's most likely that this only manages your LAN IP as given to you by whatever DHCP server you use on the LAN. (Most routers have a DHCP server enabled by default)
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