PHP IP display

[Dean B]

Hidy all,
I've just noticed that echo "$REMOTE_ADDR"; no longer displays your correct ip (TAZ)
Any reason for this?

-Dean

[Terra]

Ummm, errrr:

http://www.dmcity.com/test/raddr.php3

works for me...

???

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Terra
--Had to snoop around to find that URL call so that others can substantiate success as well--
FutureQuest

[Dean B]

Puzzle solved   Last week I got hooked up with a Cable Modem running via an ethernet card.  This running through Zone Alarm as well.  As a newbie to networking and this proxy stuff I'm told this is to be expected.  I am a bit puzzled though when I reconfigure to use my dial up connection I still see the wrong ip.

Anyone care to give me a simple explanation for all this ?

Anyway, thx for your assistance guys n gal

-Dean

[Arthur]

If you use your dial up connection AND your cable modem has a connection, the cable modem has a higher priority and all your internet traffic will be routed through the cable modem.
If you disconnect the cable from your ethernet card, all traffic will be routed through the dial up connection.
Run 'winipcfg' on Windows 98, or 'ipconfig' on Win2k, to see the IP addresses for your cable modem connection and/or your dial up connection.

Simple enough?
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Arthur

[Justin]

If you are behind any sort of proxy and/or cache server, generally the IP the web server sees is that of the proxy/cache, rather than your machine's IP. Unfortunately too many providers are running caching proxies in order to save on their bandwidth (especially DSL/cable providers, though if you are persistant enough they just might disable it )

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Justin Nelson
SFE Software

[PaulKroll]

I happen to think it's only unfortunate when the caching proxy is set up poorly, but I'm guessing that's more often than I'd care to know. If AOL didn't cache, I think many of us would be using a lot more bandwidth.

Course, some things you absolutely don't want to be cached, but a LARGE portion of web content that SHOULD be highly cachable, isn't, either because folks haven't gone to the trouble of making their dynamic pages cachable (I've been guilty of this) or because the server settings are just poor. (One host I was on didn't have LastModified dates sent along for static pages and graphics. Why on earth I don't know, but it meant a LOT of useless traffic, particularly of the gifs and jpgs for the site)

Let's not even go into Expires headers or dynamic content returning 304s where appropriate.

[DestinyBWL]

Actually the dialup will take priority over the cable modem.  However it will still use the proxy settings.

[Arthur]

Works for me...

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Arthur

[sheila]

I substantiate.

[Arthur]

Not on my cable modem. Only after I set the Interfacemetric higher for the cable modem's NIC, the dial-up interface takes priority.