Advice on Proxy?

[howardb]

Hi All
Just got my Imagine-IPS account with 4 Static IP's and a Cisco 837 Router - Hooked everything up and everything seems to be fine until -

I access a particular site to d/l a file, and it tells me that the IP address is already downloading a file - I am not d/l any file from there yet, but it gives me an IP that does not match any of the details given to me by Imagine - using whatismyip.com, I am given my PC internal IP, and it also tells me that a proxy is detected - what does this mean?

I have 2 PC's connected to the Cisco router, with each PC having it's own static IP address on the network, and each PC can seem to access most sites without this problem...

...have i missed something or am I just being stupid?
HB

BTW: I have tried accessing the router's setup as per the manual on http://10.10.10.1, but this returns a blank page.

 

[Turbo_Aspiration]

do a lookup on the ip the site gives you. I hav a feeling you'll find its a transparent proxy

 

[Wanderer]

Mutiple/Changin IP addresses on SAIX

I am having exactly the same problem through Web Africa. It is a new issue that I never had before November 1st - some websites are suddenly saying that I am logging in twice from two different computers with different IP addresses, within the same session. I don´t think this is a router issue as nothing has changed on my router - I therefore assume it is an SAIX issue!

When I go to www.whatsmyip.com, the site lists two IP addresses. For example:

Your IP Is 165.146.137.x, 198.54.202.x
Proxy Detected Is 198.54.202.226

I do not have a proxy configured, and have no reason to have two IP addresses. However, whatsmyip.com claims I have both.

What is causing this? Is there any way around this? Is this another good reason to switch to IS? Does everyone get this result at whatsmyip.com?

 

[Wanderer]

do a lookup on the ip the site gives you. I hav a feeling you'll find its a transparent proxy

What does a transparent proxy do?

 

[thisgeek]

Telkom have numerous transparent proxies on the ADSL network.
I had a hell of a time downloading my legal copy of Alcohol, because they have a session checker that checks for access from different IPs. I eventually had to mail the help desk to provide me with a link that didn't do the checking.

So yeah, being forced through a transparent proxy can really f*** you around.

 

[ambo]

What does a transparent proxy do?

Its a proxy server that is used to cache files - but it is invisable. From your side it just looks like another router but it has a hard drive and serves you files from there if it has them available thereby saving the ISP bandwidth in fetching files - particularly over the international link