IP Address problems/questions.

[altwight]

Okay so I've been playing d2 a lot recently and blizzard has that gay ass anti bot thing where if you join more than 20games in <1hr you git IP ban for 20min-72hours. Well I've been searching for a way to change my IP address all morning and everything has sucked. Now i contacted my ISP and they informed me that i have a dynamic IP address and it will change automatically and informed me how to check and see when it will change. CMD>Ipconfig/all and while directly connected to the modem it tells me in 1hour (roughly 9:36am PST) the problem is i use a router so the other members of my family can participate in surfing the world wide web! SO when i go to ipconfig/all while connected to my router it just says Lease obtained xtime lease expires same time as obtained. Now when im connected to my modem my INTERNET IP (the one that shows up on sites such as www.whatismyip.com) is different than it is when im connected through modem. So my question is, how does my IP change while connected to the router because when im not connected to it my IP changes every hour but my router has had same INTERNET IP for 18hours now. literally 18 o.O any help would be appreciated

[Cephius]

If you are connected to your home router, your IP is on your home network (192.168.xxx.xxx). If you are connected to your router, you're seeing your internet IP. You can try releasing and renewing your IP when connected to your modem and see if it'll change, but its your ISP that determines whether it changes or not, not you.

[altwight]

Point of thread was to say no matter if my ISP issues me a new IP while im directly connected to modem whenever i go to router it goes back to the other IP regardless. I have no problem changing my IP when im directly connected to my modem it's just when im on router. Also the DHCP release/renew doesn't do jack shit. Just resets shit to the same it was.

[Norellicus]

Most IP leases last between 3 and 7 days on large networks, depending on how revolving door their clients are. Since broadband internet is 'always on', the lease time is likely very long. You'll probably end up waiting the same amount of time as your IP ban :/ But it doesn't hurt to check back daily.

There's no real way you can force a new lease though, that's totally managed by the ISP, and if it's watching for your modem's MAC (likely) then it'll never issue you a different IP until its good and ready to.

[ismarc]

Most IP leases last between 3 and 7 days on large networks, depending on how revolving door their clients are. Since broadband internet is 'always on', the lease time is likely very long. You'll probably end up waiting the same amount of time as your IP ban :/ But it doesn't hurt to check back daily.

There's no real way you can force a new lease though, that's totally managed by the ISP, and if it's watching for your modem's MAC (likely) then it'll never issue you a different IP until its good and ready to.

Covered pretty well here. You're obviously not to savvy about IP subnetting, but if you have an understanding of it and know how to efficiently use nmap, you can cheat and rotate your IP on your own due to DHCP servers trusting the client (set static IP, issue DHCPREQUEST, DHCP server will NAK if there's already a lease that's not expired to a different mac, or ACK if there's a free/expired/stale lease).

Something additional to note:
DHCP clients (your router, your computer, whatever it is that pulls DHCP) attempts to renew the lease when it's halfway through. So if the lease time is 60 seconds, it will renew the lease every 30 seconds. That means that your IP address should never change if it's always connected. The only reason it would change is if the subnet and range the DHCP server ran on for your physical connection changed. This means that it is likely that your IP address won't change every few days and, in fact, can stay the same for 2+ years. Additionally, most DHCP clients will save the lease to a file for information and will immediately issue a DHCPREQUEST for the previous lease it had, meaning powering your router down and leaving it off for the entire lease duration isn't a guarantee you'll receive a different lease once you power it back up.

[Zosi]

No way to force a new address on most connections. Stop spamming games like a dumbass, it's not hard to avoid getting temp-banned in the first place. Run something that takes longer than Pindle, or ask a friend to help you mule, most of us who post in the D2 thread will gladly do it if we aren't busy. If you need to mule anything even remotely valuable, it's dumb to toss it on the ground anyways, anything from an unlucky temp to server issues to your net going out can fuck you over.