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Originally posted by M_Six
I may have confused the issue some. If you have internal IP addresses for your PCs and are using a proxy server program like WinProxy or a NAT enabled router, the website won't see the IP address of the PC, but it will still see the IP address your ISP assigns you. |
Correct. If you use a proxy out on the Internet then your public IP is hidden in the same way as if it was on a private LAN.
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| DVNT1, I looked at both products you mentioned and I see where they both use NAT to hide the PC's assigned IP address... |
NAT and PROXY are different technologies, they work
very differently (proxy actually does the requesting and NAT basically just does IP address substitution).
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| ...but I don't see where they will hide the ISP-assigned IP address. In other words, your machine's 192.168.x.x address is hidden, but your router's IP wouldn't be. Or would it? How do either of these products hide your ISP-assigned IP without going through a separate remote proxy server? |
neither hide your public IP if the proxy (or even NAT) server is using your public IP to communicate; you must use a "remote" server to do do that which is what many anonymous web services provide.