Do Proxies Work on a Static IP Address?
I am wondering if using proxies with SER is working.
My PC's IP address is static. It have never changed as long as I can remember.
My PC is configured to talk to the router which apparently gets an IP address from my DSL ISP.
ipconfig indicates:
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Home
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::4de1:acff:d58e:7888%11
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.2
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Home
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::d0d5:33e7:5749:f8a2%10
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.4
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
The IP address 192.168.1.1 is apparently the IP address of my side of the router.
When I query whatismyipaddress.com I get my static IP back, 75.119.......
When I use Firefox Tools -> Options -> Network -> Settings
and put in a "working" proxy that SER has tested against whatismyipaddress.com my browser cannot connect to the Internet.
It seems that SER has made the proxies work if it, indeed, tested the proxy against whatismyipaddress.com and received the proxy's IP address back.
Can software like SER do something I cannot do manually? It so, how does it do it?
My PC's IP address is static. It have never changed as long as I can remember.
My PC is configured to talk to the router which apparently gets an IP address from my DSL ISP.
ipconfig indicates:
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Home
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::4de1:acff:d58e:7888%11
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.2
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Home
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::d0d5:33e7:5749:f8a2%10
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.4
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
The IP address 192.168.1.1 is apparently the IP address of my side of the router.
When I query whatismyipaddress.com I get my static IP back, 75.119.......
When I use Firefox Tools -> Options -> Network -> Settings
and put in a "working" proxy that SER has tested against whatismyipaddress.com my browser cannot connect to the Internet.
It seems that SER has made the proxies work if it, indeed, tested the proxy against whatismyipaddress.com and received the proxy's IP address back.
Can software like SER do something I cannot do manually? It so, how does it do it?