Privoxy not changing IP

winsumlusum

When I go to a site with Privoxy the ip is the same as without. Thought a proxy would change the ip. The others i have tried do.?

LoLth

not familiar with privoxy (and dotn have access to it right now).

is it an online service?

if so, have you set your browser to use privoxy as your proxy connection?

is it an installed service on your local machine?
if so, you may need to ensure that the service is runningand that your browser is using it as a proxy. Also, most IPs are set at the router and not the local PC so a proxy will change your IP on the private LAN but not your external IP which is still picked up as the WAN facing IP of your default gateway.

winsumlusum

LoLth wrote: »

not familiar with privoxy (and dotn have access to it right now).

is it an online service?

if so, have you set your browser to use privoxy as your proxy connection?

is it an installed service on your local machine?
if so, you may need to ensure that the service is runningand that your browser is using it as a proxy. Also, most IPs are set at the router and not the local PC so a proxy will change your IP on the private LAN but not your external IP which is still picked up as the WAN facing IP of your default gateway.

It is an installed program to set up a vpn with hamachi see

Also, most IPs are set at the router and not the local PC so a proxy will change your IP on the private LAN but not your external IP which is still picked up as the WAN facing IP of your default gateway

other proxies change my WAN facing IP

winsumlusum

bedlam wrote: »

This is not what privoxy is designed to do.

http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES

but it should do that as well. I am trying to set up a VPN with hamachi and privoxy

winsumlusum

bedlam wrote: »

Privoxy is not giving you the IP, hamachi is.

You have given very little information as to what you have done so far, but the basic principal is

1. run hamachi
2. configure privoxy to listen on the hamachi interface
3. configure browser to proxy through privoxy.

yes i have done all that. when go to a site showing IP should it not show the hamachi IP? I am going through firefox with hamachi set as manual HTTP proxy. Should the IP site not show the hamachi IP 5.xxx.xxx.xx?

winsumlusum

bedlam wrote: »

No, hamachi treat the 5/8 IP block as an internal range and is not broadcast on the internet.

ok thanks did not realise thatEDIT. Then how do you connect to a computer at home from a coffee shop over the hamachi VPN

If you want to see if the setup is working, go to http://ipchicken.com/ with the proxy setting in Firefox turned off and then on and see if they differ. If they do your setup is working, if they are the same something went wrong, possibly privoxy related (visit http://config.privoxy.org/) possibly something else.

it is not working - i had checked like that before except on a different site to ipchicken

winsumlusum

bedlam wrote: »

Both computers would need to be running Hamachi, both computers would be on the same hamachi 5/8 network, you are telling the coffee shop computer to connect to your home computer based on the network information you set up when configuring hamachi on the PC.



Probably not. I left one important step out, though you you may be doing this already, the PC you are browsing from and the computer that has privoxy on it should not be in the same location. Eg. you are in the coffee shop with firefox configured to use privoxy with the hamachi IP on your home computer. So in this instance your public IP will be what ever your home IP is.

OK thanks. i have not gone to coffee shop yet. I have hamachi and privoxy on one pc which i understand is the 'server' and just hamachi on the other but they are both on my network. Does being on same lan make a difference.

Eg. you are in the coffee shop with firefox configured to use privoxy with the hamachi IP on your home computer

would that work on the same lan. I have both pcs configured to use firefox with the proxy 5.xxx.xxx.xx

So in this instance your public IP will be what ever your home IP is

but it should be different to using firefox with out a proxy shouldn't it?

Many thanks;)

JimmyCrackCorn

Would it not be easier to have squid setup with a ssl proxy and password?
Or an SSH tunnel?

I ran squid on my local linux box and sshd with a dyndns client. (soon to be done on a rasberry pi if it ever turns up.)

Adding hamachi to the mix is just adding software you will need to install at an internet cafe.

winsumlusum

JimmyCrackCorn wrote: »

Would it not be easier to have squid setup with a ssl proxy and password?
Or an SSH tunnel?

I ran squid on my local linux box and sshd with a dyndns client. (soon to be done on a rasberry pi if it ever turns up.)

Adding hamachi to the mix is just adding software you will need to install at an internet cafe.

it would be installed o the laptop you take to the cafe. i f you installed it onthe internet cafe pc would you stillnot be vulnerable to any monitoring software on that pc. ?

I will look at squid though

winsumlusum

bedlam wrote: »

Yes, it reduces the benefit of running the proxy set up. You will still appear on the internet with the same IP and if anyone can monitor the traffic between your server and the gateway they can see where you are going.




yes




I suspect that Hamachi might be the better option for you or at least easier to setup.


What exactly are you trying to achieve overall, privacy on the local network, anonymity on the internet, both?

tryng to learn how to make/use a vpn

BaconZombie

Look up OpenVPN.

winsumlusum wrote: »

tryng to learn how to make/use a vpn

winsumlusum

BaconZombie wrote: »

Look up OpenVPN.

thanks looks good but not really free, limts on t

winsumlusum

Thanks guys have hamatchi working ok now was being blocked on lan by a firewall setting