How to hide your IP address?

[qwert85103]

Hi,

Excuse me if I am in the wrong forum! How can one hide the IP address especilly when using DSL connection. I researched about it a little, but found that firewalls (mcafee/norton) don't offer this feature.

Thanks.

 

[Grenage]

Basically you can't.

Your IP address is in every packet, it has to be in order for the recipient to know where it came from and where to return information. You can spoof your IP address but you won't be able to receive any data so it is essentially useless.

You can use a proxy, which takes your requests and then requests the data itself before forwarding it back to you. The recipient would see the IP address of the proxy server but not your IP address.

Russell.

 

[glennomoore]

You must use NAT. Network Address Translation.
Like so:

{Internet}<--->[ExternalIP/External Interface]<--> [InternalIP/Internal Interface]

This is usually done on the firewall. You can also use RRAS in W2K to perform NATting. Linksys and many other vendors now have solutions for about US $50.

Q300851 will explain further.

 

[Grenage]

NAT will not hide your Internet IP address, it will mask your Local Network IP address.

 

[tetaguila]

true!!! NATing couldnt hide ur ip address, take the advice of mr russell, you can only spoof.... as of today...but we'll never know maybe nxt month os so open source community might be able to discover a solution for your question...


tet(pinoy)

 

[CobolKid]

One phrase; "NAT Masquerading."

NAT/M does not "hide" you known IP, what it does do is hide local IPs behind a known IP. So run private IPs (ref RFC 1918) locally, block all packets but a few ICMP types and the TCP/UDP stuff needed at the firewall and run NAT/M; walla, you have an effective boundary.
Expecially effective as a "first line of defense" for DSL stuff like RFC1483 MAC/MER routers.