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I'm using it for online games and running programs for friends out of one PC. Limits will be placed soon, so my question is: how can I get a different IP address for each account loading up from one single PC. If they place a limit of two logins from one IP address, then we would need to run 10 logins from one PC, all with their own IP address.
Can this be done reasonably cheap?
Darrell
Posted 2014-02-04T17:13:15.020
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Typically you assign one IP address to each interface at a time. If I understand you correctly, you want to run 10 IP addresses at one time. That means you need 10 NICs which is rare for a desktop machine. Not to mention, your ISP will probably require you to get a Business Class service from them in order to get multiple public addresses through them.
Long story short: You can't easily do what you want to do, especially if you want it cheap.
Alex
Posted 2014-02-04T17:13:15.020
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1You don't need 10 NICs to have 10 IP addresses. – MaQleod – 2014-02-13T16:21:49.840
True, but typically you do. – Alex – 2014-02-13T18:07:40.827
Why? I always just put them all on the same NIC, unless of course I need to worry about bandwidth - but if I'm reading/writing so much that I am over-powering a PC NIC, I'm probably beating the processor or HDD to death, so having multiple NICs would just be pointless. – MaQleod – 2014-02-13T18:18:41.417
3Contact your ISP to understand the costs of this. – Ramhound – 2014-02-04T17:15:04.937
Talk to your ISP. Some of them offer plans that include multiple public IPs. Alternatively, you can look into a VPN service or make one yourself with an EC2 instance (or other VPS). – David Schwartz – 2014-02-04T17:15:17.723
1what exactly do you mean 10 logins? you mean 10 windows logins? 1 pc is going to have 1 ip address. – Sickest – 2014-02-04T17:59:59.210
Not much of a tech person for PCs, but VPN won't work, those providers say I need to go Private Proxies. People needing this will only be able to login two accounts per IP address to the game. Most players now hold 10 to 40 accounts, which means that every two accounts will need their own IP address..... – Darrell – 2014-02-04T19:33:52.860
It will be prohibitively expensive. – user294732 – 2014-02-05T02:13:48.403
My ISP issues dynamic IP addresses, so I get a different IP address every time I reboot my router. Getting multiple IP addresses would require you to get a business connection, which would cost a lot more than what you are currently paying. – paradroid – 2014-02-13T16:07:28.033
@Sickets, a NIC can have multiple IPs and a PC can have multiple NICs. Most ISPs have an option to get additional static IPs, and that can range in price. The last ISP I did that with charged $5/mo per IP. The process for configuring multiple IP addresses on your NIC will vary based on your OS, but it is quite possible on Windows/*nix systems (depending on your config, you may need to ensure that IP routing tables are correct to ensure that traffic goes in and out on the correct IPs). – MaQleod – 2014-02-13T16:13:35.277