hiding my IP address

[Nodsu]

You can use proxies to hide your IP but that will come at the cost of slower network connection and your dependence on the proxy server plus lots of connectivity problems with less trivial applications like p2p and such.

I don't see the point of hiding your IP adress just to let all your network traffic to go through some unknown computer where god knows who can look at every byte you send and receive.

 

[tripleione]

Originally posted by realblackstuff
And that is exactly wherer Anonymizer steps in. It absorbs your IP-address, uses one of its own to pass on your request to another website, then that website sends its answer back to Anonymizer using Anon's IP-address, and finally Anon passes on the message to your home-IP-address. Only Anon would have seen your IP-address, thus "spoofing" it as you say.

Seems like that would come at a large cost of internet performance. What's your personal experience with this?

 

[RealBlackStuff]

Using a 512kb up/512kb down broadband (wireless), I can't say I notice any difference with or without Anonymizer. I use Anonymizer only when I go on certain download-sites (non-porn) to prevent the enormous amount of pop-ups that even a good browser does not suppress.

 

[atlasm]

A quick point about routers public and private addresses.
Routers use NAT (network Address Translation) to supply a range of private address from one public IP number supplied by your ISP provider. On the router are two NIC cards. One with the public IP address, subnet and the gateway, which the internet sees. The other is your private IP address (192.168.0.2 et al) Class C subnet mask and the default gateway in this case (192.168.0.1) which only the LAN can see. You can only have one public address but with private networking you could theoretically have 199 pc's. The router using a routing table knows the PC by it's private address, and translates your TCP/IP info. requests.

 

[chrisvip]

Just another computer programmer here.

Goofing around with winsock has taught me that it's my modem that obtains the IP address from my ISP. That ip address never changes and will be delivered to every socket you connect to on the internet. In otherwords, routers will not make you anonymous. Any attempt at 2 way communication over the internet will reveal your true IP address which can be traced directly to your ISP. Your ISP can use that IP address to determine your name and address since, of course, you PAY the ISP for that IP address.

All your router does is relay information received by your modem to one or more VIRTUAL IP address which are assigned to one or more computers plugged into the other side of your router.

So, in a nutshell...

ISP
|
WALL
|
MODEM (REAL IP)
|
ROUTER
/ | \
(IP) (IP) (IP) (VIRTUAL IP ADDRESSES)
| | |
NC NC NC (Network Cards)

When you connect to another computer over the internet, your REAL IP address is sent to the computer your connecting to. Otherwise, the computer your connecting to would not be able to send anything back to your modem.

You could of course SPOOF your IP by forging the source IP field on your outgoing TCP/IP packet headers, but don't expect to get a response back. Any response will be sent to the IP you spoofed.

Hi tetravus,
Another programmer here too

I was wandering if you could give me some pointers on how I could forge TCP/IP packet header and if that’s possible when using the WinSock2?

 

[cerealkiller9]

If a hacker is good enough and really wants to get into your computer, they will. It's just like dealing with auto theft. There's no way to make your system 100% hack proof so the trick is to make it as difficult as possible for a hacker to get into.

As far as seeing private IP addresses or not, click on the link and see if your private IP shows up or not, hopefully it doesn't.

I'm interested to see how many people do this and I would like you to post whether or not your private IP was revealed.

 

[Crazy]

was my wan ip, not my private

 

[tbrunt3]

Anonymizer works well as does a few firewalls with the selth mode .. But to be honost if they what to find they can becuse of your mac address each computer has one and each is set for your own computer. This address is unique to you.

 

[Nodsu]

That post is just wrong..

Yes, anonymizer works for web browsing.
Stealth mode has absolutely nothing to do with IP addresses.
A MAC address is something that has absolutely nothing to do with internet and no MAC information can pass through it.

 

[delafoo]

Anonymizer Works But SUCKS

Anonymizer SUCKS. I tried this and another IP stealthing program from the EU, as well as a program 'stealther' from wal-mart.

They all worked. Audit-my-pc.com and GRC's shields up could not detect my IP.

However, though these programs are relatively inexpensive, you pay dearly in internet speed.

I'm on a cable connection, and my average speeds from dslreports.com say I have a 1900kbps down and 756kbps up speed. . . Using these steath programs puts me in the dialup regions for internet access...

So, they may be worth it if you're a freak and want to use it for online personal information, banking etc... but for anything else requiring the least bit of speed, they're not worth it!

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