Hi all,
Can anyone tell me how to detect a ip address behind a router?
I know that using ASP, we can detect the actual ip and the proxy ip, but what if the visitor is using a router that dynamically assigns a ip.
Please advise
Many Thanks

run ipconfig?

Haha,thats a cute answer.
Im trying to detect the ip addressed of visitors coming to my site.
They are from all over the world.
I am able to do that if they use either a proxy server or if no proxy server is used.
However once a router is used, the ip address returned to me will not be the actual ip address of that visitor as the ip address returned to me is randomly assigned by the router of that visitor.

For example
A visitor from France not using a router will give me a ip address that indicates the country France.
However, if this same visitor from France is using a router not randomly assigns ip addresses, the ip address returned to me will not not indicate France, and may now give me a ip address that indicates that say the United States.
This way my program will have failed miserablely...
Is there anyway i can request for the actaul ip instead of that ip that the router sends to me in attempt to hide the actual ip address of the visitor.
Any Advise is greatly appreciated..
Many Thanks..

pikachew, IP-NAT works in such a way that if a visitor from France is going through a router then you will see that router's IP as his. This is true whether the visitor is connecting to the router via a dynamic or static IP. The said router will be leasing an IP from some ISP, so doing a whois to that IP will reveal whatever location the ISP fed into their ICANN registration. (there's other ways to know location of a router but they depend on the owner having actually fed the info into the device and made it available to the world - e.g. having the router be a DNS and feeding LOC records).

However, there are numerous ways to appear to come from a country (or IP) that is not the "real" one, including using a proxy and forging IP packets, or going through routers with bogus location information.

In short this means that your program doesn't need any modification, you just have to trust the country of origin his ISP tells you the connection has. I don't think you can do any better, but definately having a connection to your router via DHCP or manually assigned doesn't make a difference.

Hope that helps, cheers!

The short answer is, you can't. And the second answer is, it wouldn't be of any use to you.

That's because the user's computer will be on a LAN behind the router with private addresses that are not routeable over the internet (192.168.x.x, 10.x.x.x, etc.). So even if you knew their actual private address, you couldn't connect to it anyway. The router acts as an agent and masquerades their connection using the router's external public IP address. To make matters worse, you'll have many users with the same private address. Almost every cable/dsl router assigns private addresses in the 192.168.0.x (or 192.168.1.x) range by default, and most corporate networks utilize 10.x.x.x addresses.

It's the router's job to prevent you from finding out the private addresses to shield and protect the user's computer.

Bruce Luckcuck
Director, Applications & Support Services
Wiley Publishing, Inc.