I used to be able to internally change my computer IP number
temporarily [cloaking I believe it is called] but have forgotten how
to do it, can you please tell me how it is done?

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Request for Question Clarification by cynthia-ga on 09 Mar 2005 04:33 PST

dab2061,

Please tell me if the information at this link is helpful.  The
situation is different, however, the procedure should work for you. 
Try it, and let me know.

http://www.tek-tips.com/gviewthread.cfm/lev2/5/lev3/60/pid/581/qid/323725/auid/11653

~~Cynthia

Why would you want to do that?

High Rankings Advisor Issue 041 - Cloaking Is Always A Bad Idea
http://www.ihelpyouservices.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6798

Ending The Debate Over Cloaking - By Danny Sullivan, Editor - February 4, 2003
http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/2165231

As far as hiding your IP for other reasons, Google Answers can't
assist in illegal or unethical activities.

Give us the reason you wish to do this.

Cynthia-ga, what are you referring to?

This link that you provided:
http://www.ihelpyouservices.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6798

talks about "a Website that returns altered Web pages to search
engines crawling the site" which is NOT what he is asking.

The second link that you have provided:
http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/2165231

talks about how "you show the search engine something different than
what you show a user", which is NOT what he is asking.

cynthia-ga, how are the links that you have posted have ANY relevance
to the question? I believe you have misinterpreted the term cloaking
and have not fully read the question.

And changing your IP address is perfectly legal. You can contact your
local law enforcement or the FBI to verify this.

Cynthia-ga, what are you referring to when you state "As far as hiding
your IP for other reasons"? dab2061-ga did not ask about hiding his IP
address, he asked about CHANGING it.

Please clarify your links, statements and accusations of "illegal or
unethical activities."

I believe you owe dab2061-ga an apology for the false accusations that
you have made.

neutron,

I listed those links for a reason.

I can think of plenty of reasons why changing your IP could be used
for less than pure reasons.  I have personally been the recipient of
wrong-doings and illegal computer intrusions from an online stalker
that "CHANGED" his IP (among other things) to avoid detection and
prosecution.

I have nothing illegal in mind, I belong to a few message boards that
only allow one user/screen name per IP number and was trying to get
around that so I could have multiple screen names.

Cynthia, this is a quote from the second link: 
'The "Would I do this if search engines didn't exist?" question that
Google suggests you ask yourself in its guidelines is excellent advice
and clearly follows on what Perkins preaches.'
The answer to the question is an uneuqiocal "yes". I am sorry to hear
you had trouble in the past, but I am not a stalker or hacker of any
kind, my motives are "impish" at worst.

dab2061, Thanks so much for the explanation.  Maybe I'm paranoid, at a
minimum incredibly suspicious...!  Please forgive me.  ~~Cynthia

cynthia, the reasons for changing your IP is no different then
changing your phone number.  One being, to get away from harassment. 
I changed my IP once because someone was trying to hack my computer,
over a 1000 times in a weeks period.

Greg
www.mooretechservices.com

cynthia-ga, you can not change your IP address and "avoid detection and
prosecution." Every IP address leads to some system. If your first IP
address leads to your system, and if you change your IP address, that
address is also going to lead to your system. Your local law
enforcement can contact the ISP of the IP issuer and get a
name/address of the IP holder.

Now you can avoid detection by going through some kind of proxy
server, but it's probably going to keep some sort of IP logs. So those
logs can be investigated by law enforcement and the true IP of the
offender can be found.

Or you can hack a system and conduct your communications through that
system. But it's only a matter of time before law enforcement traces
down the hacked system. Once they do that, they can just secretly
track who is connecting to that system.

Or you can spoof your IP address, but that is only useful for denial
of service attacks, and not really communications.

Have you contacted your local law enforcement about "wrong-doings and
illegal computer intrusions from an online stalker"? They should be
able to trace the activities back to that person.

dab2061-ga, if you can forward the details of how you connect to the
internet and your network configuration, for example:

cable modem->linksys router->Windows XP
                           ->Mac

I can give you details on how to change your IP address. It won't be
internally, you will be changing the IP address that you connect to
the internet. I believe this is what you need in order to get around
message board restrictions.

"dab2061-ga, if you can forward the details of how you connect to the
internet and your network configuration, for example:

cable modem->linksys router->Windows XP
                           ->Mac

I can give you details on how to change your IP address. It won't be
internally, you will be changing the IP address that you connect to
the internet. I believe this is what you need in order to get around
message board restrictions."

AHHH finally, this is what I'm looking for, I guess I should not have
used the term "internally!.............I have a cable modem through
optimum, and I am running windows xp......thank you neutron and once
again let me assure everyone that I am not up to anything illegal

Optimum Cable modems are trouble when it comes to IP changes. I used
to have this configuration.

Optimum Cable Modem->Linksys Router->Win XP

The only way I could change my IP address was to use the MAC address
clone functionality of my Linksys router. I have Verizon DSL
currently, so I can't try methods of obtaining a different IP address
without a router. I'll make a guess on how to charge your IP address,
give it a try.


1) Click Start->Run
2) type "cmd" (no quotes, goes for subsequent steps also)
3) on the dos window type "ipconfig /release all"
4) Press the reset button on your cable modem
5) Pull the plug of the cable modem, wait about 2 minutes, and reinsert it
6) After the lights go on on your cable modem, in the previous dos
window type "ipconfig /renew all"

I doubt it will work, but you can give it a try.

If that doesn't work, you can try using a proxy to connect to your
message board. If you want, I can give you instructions on how to do
this.

Thanks neutron! I appreciate the information. Come to think of it I
have changed my IP to avoid that stalker, many times. But even that
was not enough. In my case, I had to abandon a former user name, and
abandon former haunts online, and I move my domicile because he
started sending me things. I had to change everything so I could not
be located by my username, habits or ISP.

And neutron, I think your comment on another Q about MS Word is priceless.

..."I seriously doubt this is a virus. When people don't understand a
certain problem, they immediately blame viruses, including me. Having
said that, it might still be a virus..."

That really made my day.

Didn't work Neutron, came back "operation failed as no adapter in the
state is permissable for this type of action". I used to be able to
click something on and get my ip address and change the number, thats
what I'm trying to do now, does the "proxy" require another computer?

dab2061-ga, type in "ipconfig /all" and report back the results here.
You can block out the section saying IP address for privacy reasons.

On the subject of proxy servers see:
http://www.proxy4free.com/tips.html

http://www.its.uq.edu.au/helpdesk/guides/www/browser/win/lan/ie6/
http://www.guidescope.com/gman/bi5p.htm

In the address section of the internet explorer proxy section you
would type one of these
http://www.proxy4free.com/page1.html

in a "IP address:port" style. Such as "61.9.198.7:8080"

:-),  yes cynthia-ga, the statement I made in MS Word post was
designed to be humorous and not taken seriously.

"dab2061-ga, type in "ipconfig /all" and report back the results here."
I've done that, nothing happens, am I suppose to hit a key after
typing that in? I tried hitting enter and nothing happened

Sorry, probably should have given full instructions.

1) Click Start->Run
2) type "cmd" (no quotes, goes for subsequent steps also)
3) on the dos window type "ipconfig /all >c:\ipconfiglog.txt", Enter
4) Close the dos window.
5) Go to your C: drive, Open ipconfiglog.txt, cut and paste the
results back to this post.
6) You can delete the ipconfiglog.txt file.

You can ,and probably should, block out the section saying IP address
for privacy reasons.