Change IP Address

[kevinturcotte]

Is there anyway to automatically change my IP address every few minutes?

[funhouse69]

Is there anyway to automatically change my IP address every few minutes?

Why would you want to do that? Trying to hide from someone :-)

The only way would be through some kind of script or through DCHP with a really, really short lease and I don't even know if you can do that short for a DHCP Lease. This would also cause a lot of network traffic as well.

What I forgot to mention is if this is an IP Address that is assigned to you by someone else like your ISP then no there isn't a way to do this. The reason being is that they set up a DHCP Lease that is associated to the unique MAC Address of your device that is connected to them like a router, firewall or god forbid directly to a computer. They are the ones to set this and you have no control over it. Even if you do a release of the IP and a Renew it won't make a difference as you are still sending out the same MAC Address.

[Steve Mehs]

Is there anyway to automatically change my IP address every few minutes?

If you're on dial up, sign on, disconnect and sign on again, otherwise see Funhouse's post.

[kevinturcotte]

It's high speed cable, connected through a router. I didn't think I could do it. I have managed to do it by unplugging the modem and the router, waiting 30 seconds, and plugging them back in. That's a hassle though. What about a proxy server?

[kaz]

I assume this is for web access... theres a firefox addon that will change proxies every X seconds as you configure it. It even comes with a list of proxy servers with it.