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An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a numerical identification and logical address that is assigned to devices participating in a computer network utilizing the Internet Protocol for communication between its nodes.




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Please be aware that the use of proxy servers without the express permission from the owner of the proxy server may be illegal in some states and/or countries. Use at your own risk.

Use your favorite search engine and search for 'proxy server list'. You'll find many sites with lists of proxy servers, their IP address, the port they listen on, and usually what country they are in. Write down a few of them.

You may see references to four different types of proxy servers:

    * Transparent Proxy - This type of proxy server identifies itself as a proxy server and also makes the original IP address available through the http headers. These are generally used for their ability to cache websites and do not effectively provide any anonymity to those who use them. However, the use of a transparent proxy will get you around simple IP bans. They are transparent in the terms that your IP address is exposed, not transparent in the terms that you do not know that you are using it (your system is not specifically configured to use it.)

    * Anonymous Proxy - This type of proxy server indentifies itself as a proxy server, but does not make the original IP address available. This type of proxy server is detectable, but provides reasonable anonymity for most users.

    * Distorting Proxy - This type of proxy server identifies itself as a proxy server, but make an incorrect original IP address available through the http headers.

    * High Anonymity Proxy - This type of proxy server does not identify itself as a proxy server and does not make available the original IP address.

You may need to search for a proxy server list first.

In computer networks, a proxy server is a server (a computer system or an application program) that acts as a go-between for requests from clients seeking resources from other servers. A client connects to the proxy server, requesting some service, such as a file, connection, web page, or other resource, available from a different server. The proxy server evaluates the request according to its filtering rules. For example, it may filter traffic by IP address or protocol. If the request is validated by the filter, the proxy provides the resource by connecting to the relevant server and requesting the service on behalf of the client. A proxy server may optionally alter the client's request or the server's response, and sometimes it may serve the request without contacting the specified server. In this case, it 'caches' responses from the remote server, and returns subsequent requests for the same content directly.

A proxy server has two purposes:

    * To keep machines behind it anonymous (mainly for security).[1]
    * To speed up access to a resource (via caching). It is commonly used to cache web pages from a web server.[2]

A proxy server that passes requests and replies unmodified is usually called a gateway or sometimes tunneling proxy.

A proxy server can be placed in the user's local computer or at various points between the user and the destination servers or the Internet. A reverse proxy is a proxy used as a front-end to accelerate and cache in-demand resources. (wikipedia)

An IP address (Internet Protocol address) is a unique number, similar in concept to a telephone number, used by machines (usually computers) to refer to each other when sending information through the Internet. This allows machines passing the information onwards on behalf of the sender to know where to send it next, and for the machine receiving the information to know that it is the intended destination.An example IP address is 207.142.131.236. Converting a number address to a more human-readable form called a domain address (www.wikipedia.org) is done via the Domain Name System. The process of conversion is known as resolution of the domain name. (From Wikipedia). There are many sites out there what give you this info, ipchicken, whatismyip, whatismyaddress etc.

The IP address 192.168.2.1 is the default for certain models of home broadband routers principally SMC and Belkin brands. This address is set by the manufacturer at the factory, but you can change it at any time using the network router's administrative console.

192.168.2.1 is a private IPv4 network address. Home routers can use it to establish the default gateway. On such routers, you can access its administrative console by pointing a Web browser to http://192.168.2.1.

Any brand of network router, or any computer on a local network for that matter, can be set to use 192.168.2.1. As with any IP address, however, to avoid address conflicts only one device on the network should use it.

The IP address 192.168.0.1 is the default for certain home broadband routers, principally various D-Link and Netgear models. This address is set by the manufacturer at the factory, but you can change it at any time using the network router's administrative console.

192.168.0.1 is a private IPv4 network address. Home routers can use it to establish the default gateway. On such routers, you can access its administrative console by pointing a Web browser to http://192.168.0.1.

Any brand of router, or any computer on a local network for that matter, can be set to use this address or a comparable private IPv4 address. As with any IP address, only one device on the network should use 192.168.0.1 to avoid address conflicts.

192.168.1.1 is an IP address in the private IP address range 192.168.0.0 -
192.168.255.255.

Private IP addresses are special, because they can be utilized over and over
again on different networks. In other words, both you and I can have
192.168.0.0/16 networks at the same time. This is good and helps to keep IP addresses available, prior to IPv6.


The downside to this is that private IP address ranges are considered
non-routable. That is, private IP addresses cannot communicate on the
Internet without the use of Network Address Translation (NAT).

RFC 1918 defines three private IP address ranges:

192.168.1.1 as a Default IP Address

Many network devices, such as Linksys routers, use 192.168.1.1 as their default
IP address.

This can create difficulties, because two devices on a network cannot share one
IP address, otherwise you will definitely have an IP Address Conflict issue. In other words, although you can have one device on your network at
the IP address 192.168.1.1 and I can have a different device on my network at
the IP address 192.168.1.1, neither of us can have two devices on our networks
which both use the 192.168.1.1 IP address.

When adding a new device to your network, be certain that its default IP
address is not already in use on your network.

192.168.1.1

Defined in the Internet RFC's

192.168.1.1 is officially defined in RFC 1918: Address Allocation for Private
Internets:

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the following three
blocks of the IP address space for private internets:

    * 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix)
    * 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 (172.16/12 prefix)
    * 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)

These are some other Private IP Addresses in Common Use:

    * 192.168.0.1
    * 192.168.2.1
    * 172.16.0.1

DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is a protocol used by networked computers (clients) to obtain IP addresses and other parameters such as the default gateway, subnet mask, and IP addresses of DNS servers from a DHCP server. The DHCP server ensures that all IP addresses are unique, e.g., no IP address is assigned to a second client while the first client's assignment is valid (its lease has not expired). Thus IP address pool management is done by the server and not by a human network administrator.

DHCP is commonly found in many ISP's as a way to assign their clients IP address which are random and change often. This means that a new computer can be added to a network without the hassle of manually assigning it a unique IP address.

A firewall is a hardware or software device which is configured to permit, deny, or proxy data through a computer network which has different levels of trust. There are hardware firewalls such as routers which contain firewalls in them, or even full blown hardware firewalls themselves, which aren't routers. Some command brands of routers that include firewalls are linksys, dlink, netgear, belkin, etc.

Then there are software firewall solutions, windows has its own built in firewall solution, some may argue about whether or not it is any good. There are others as well from companies such as Symantec/Norton and Check Point/Zone Alarm and several more.

Ping is a computer network tool used to test whether a particular host is reachable across an IP network. It works by sending ICMP “echo request” packets to the target host and listening for ICMP “echo response” replies. ping estimates the round-trip time, generally in milliseconds, and records any packet loss, and prints a statistical summary when finished.

The word ping is also frequently used as a verb or noun, where it can refer directly to the round-trip time, the act of running a ping program or measuring the round-trip time.

You can use ping by entering a dos prompt or command line in windows and using the following example:

ping yahoo.com

If the host is reachable, it will return replies.