These forums are strange...

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Unidentified Assilant
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These forums are strange...

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My forum says I have posted from 3 different I.P addresses, I have only posted from my home computer :?
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it changes every time you log on only 2 numbers stay the same
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Oh :?
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Otherwise known as your ISP uses DHCP :)
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Post by HK-47 »

^ Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
It means you have a dynamic IP ie. it constantly changes...
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Or if your internet goes down, you turn off your modem and it resets the ip. Also
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So people can't track you down as easy... thats a good idea :P If you do illegal stuff
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Not really, your ISP still has a log of which MAC address has that certain IP at any certain time.
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gannon wrote:Not really, your ISP still has a log of which MAC address has that certain IP at any certain time.
Yeah. So youre screwed if you download stuff and they come looking for ya. :wink:
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Post by sam »

I think it would be one long ass list for me.

Btw. 100 post O yeah
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