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IP Address

by lriecks Jul 22, 2009 4:20AM PDT

Can you change your IP address at will?

Thanks

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It's just like changing your street address.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jul 22, 2009 5:09AM PDT

When you do that your mail would never arrive. Same for the internet. If you just changed it yourself, you would not get information from the internet.

-> How TCPIP works is well documented so I'll stick to 1 or 2 sentences about this.

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Can you?
by mike171562 Jul 22, 2009 6:01AM PDT

The answer is yes, but it may affect your connectivity

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Can You
by lriecks Jul 22, 2009 10:09AM PDT

The reason for the question. My son tells me he is changing his IP Address with no ill effects. I told him ," that was impossible." Apparently I must now eat crow or humble pie. I thought IP Address,like domain names were assigned by some international organization. It looks like I was wrong.

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If the IP address in from your internal
by lacsr Jul 22, 2009 10:48PM PDT

network, you can get the router to change the assigned IP address for your device. The outside address or address from the ISP can only be changed if they assign it to you from the DNS server. You cannot change it at your will. See here on particulars:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_server

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If the IP address in from your internal
by lriecks Jul 23, 2009 12:58AM PDT

Thank You, this was the answer I was looking for.


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