[K12OSN] anonymous surfing/IM

Doug Simpson simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
Mon Mar 20 17:10:25 UTC 2006


It is my understanding that no matter what you do, your ultimate 
connection to the Internet has a number and that number will be out on the 
web.  Not your computer (unless you have a public IP address on it) but 
actually your router's "WAN" or outside connection.

I use GAIM at home ( and sometimes at school for tech support purposes) 
because it will talk all the popular protocols and never once has anyone 
been able to get to my computer with anything other than my router's WAN 
address and then only specific ports are allowed through it.


Doug Simpson
Technology Specialist
DeQueen Public Schools
DeQueen, AR 71832
simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
Tux for President!

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 fhkms at adelphia.net wrote:

> I'd like to use Gaim for yahoo messenger, and surf the net, without my ip address being broadcasted out in cyberland.  This is done from a standalone fedora core 4 laptop on my desk.  the kids use k12, and everything goes through ipcop.  I believe I use a proxy with Ipcop now.  But, how can I hide my ip address from adelphia?
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