CHANGING IP ADDRESS

I. About

This tutorial will teach you how to change your ip address to any other one on your ip range instead of having your DHCP Server pick one for you. This is very useful because you can change your ip when you are getting DDoS'ed or if you wish to piss off someone running a web server (or other service) on your ip range, it is also useful to get around a bans as long as the ban only covered your ip not your whole ip range.

As usual anything illegal you do while reading this tutorial or after reading this tutorial is not my fault, your actions are your own so don't blame me. I do not claim that the things I teach are legal, so consider that everything i mention here is illegal if you are not sure your self.

II. Needed Information

Before you can change your ip you need some information. This information includes your ip range, subnet mask, default gateway, dhcp server, and dns servers.

1. Getting your IP range - Getting information about your ip range is not difficult, I recommend using Neo Trace on your own ip. But for our test just look at your ip address, say it's 24.193.110.13 you can definitely use the ip's found between 24.193.110.1 < [new ip] < 24.193.110.255, don't use x.x.x.1 or x.x.x.255. To find your ip simply open a dos/command prompt window and type ipconfig at the prompt, look for "IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : x.x.x.x".

2. Subnet Mask, Default Gateway, DHCP Server - These are very easy to find, just open a dos/command prompt window and type 'ipconfig /all' without the ' '. You should see something like this:

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : My Computer Name Here

Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :

Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown

IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : xxxx.xx.x

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : NETGEAR FA310TX Fast Ethernet Adapter (NGRPCI)

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX

Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes

Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 24.xxx.xxx.xx

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.240.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 24.xxx.xxx.x

DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 24.xx.xxx.xx

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 24.xx.xxx.xxx

24.xx.xxx.xx

24.xx.xxx.xxx

Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Monday, January 20, 2003 4:44:08 PM

Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Tuesday, January 21, 2003 3:43:16 AM

This is all the information you will need for now, I suggest you either keep your dos/command prompt window open or copy & paste the information somewhere, to copy right click the window and select text and click once.

III. Changing your IP Address

To change your ip address first pick any ip you like out of your ip range and remember it or write it down. It is usually a good idea to make sure the ip is dead (except for what we are going to do later on) so just ping it via "ping x.x.x.x" and if it times out then you can use it. Now go to My Computer, then Control Panel. In Control Panel select Network Connections and pick your active connection, probably Local Area Connection or your ISP name. Open that connection by double clicking on the icon in Network Connections, then select Properties under the General Tab. In the new window that pops up select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click properties, it's under the general tab. In this new window select the General tab and choose "Use the following IP address" and for the IP address enter the ip you would like to use (the one you picked from your subnet earlier) and for the Subnet Mask enter the subnet mask you got when your ran ipconfig /all, same goes for the Default Gateway. Now select "Use the following DNS server addresses" and enter the information you got earlier. Now just click OK. Test that it worked, try to refresh a website and if it works you know everything is okay and you are connected. To make sure the change worked type ipconfig again and the ip address should have changed to your new one.

IV. DDoS & DoS Protection

If your firewall shows that you are being ddosed, this is usually when you are constantly getting attempted UDP connections several times a second from either the same ip address or multiple ip addresses (ddos), you can protect your self by changing your ip address via the method i described above.

V. Web servers & Other Services

If you know someone on your ip range is running a web server and he or she has pissed you off or you just like messing around you can "steal" their ip address so any dns going to that ip will show your site instead because you would be running a web server your self.