Ip question

[idiot]

Forgive me for being an idiot, but when i run the network tools on your site, like whois, etc.., it shows my ip address as being something different than what it shows in my ipconfig. I am trying to figure out how to use proxies, and I cant figure out whether it is working or not, due to the fact, that every site shows my ip as something different. If anyone can offer me any help on how to mask my ip or any tools, I would greatly appreciate it. I have been downloading titorials, tools, and all kinds of stuff all day, and nothing has worked sofar. So after wasting about 10 hours of my sunday to come basically where i was before, I hope one of you can help me on this subject. Thanks in advance,
Idiot.

and btw, I have a cable modem, windows XP(unfortunately, it came with my new computer) connected to a D-Link DI-604 Router with default address of 192.168.0.1. I changed that address to another unused address on my IP range, but when i come here, it tells me my IP is something completely different. How do I find my IP, and whats going on? I used to know more about this in win98, but XP is killing me.

[ace]

It shows you your ip address that your isp gave you. But since you use a router the router gives you and internal ip address not noticed by the outside. Hope that makes sense to you. :)

[Philip]

192.168.*.* IP address space is reserved for private networks. Those IPs are not routable... Meaning they can't and are not used on the Internet.

With that said, the IP that you get from your ISP is assigned to the device connected to your modem, in your case a router. That router (in order to provide Internet access to multile clients) assigns different private IP addresses to PCs on your internal network, and routes requests via its external IP to the Internet.

In other words, the IP that you see with ipconfig is your internal private IP assigned to your network card by the router, something in the 192.168.*.* range. The IP that our website sees is the external one assigned by your ISP to your router... And that's assuming you're not behind a web proxy.

Web proxies stand between you and websites, caching information for a supposed faster retreival later on (often with the only purpose of saving your ISP some bandwidth). As a result, any request that you (through your router) make is redirected to a web proxy, which in turn requests the page... That can show the proxy's IP, since that's the client making the request.

I hope this helps :)

[idiot]

that does help, thank you for explaining it so good to both of you. So basically there is no way to change the ip that is assigned by my isp, unless i am behind a proxy?

[Philip]

Originally posted by idiot
that does help, thank you for explaining it so good to both of you. So basically there is no way to change the ip that is assigned by my isp, unless i am behind a proxy?

Well... If your ISP uses DHCP (like most residential ISPs do) to serve IP addresses, then they are dynamic, and probably change at times.

DHCP leases you an IP from your provider for a period of time. If your end of the connection is down until that lease expires (could be a day, could be a week), then that IP would be released and assigned to some other customer.

The moment you try to connect, you would be assigned a diferent address from a pool of available IPs. All that saves your ISP some IPs.

[General_Jack_As]

My first question is what ISP are you going through? I go through cox cable and I recieve a fixed IP. If this makes it clearer, the IP that speedguide.net provides is the one the rest of the internet see's you as. And that is the one that other computers will access you through (FTP or other services) The Internal IP the 192.168.*.* is used for only internal puposes, suppose a firewall, proxy, or server you setup.