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how do i find out?

4 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/how-do-i-find-out.26427/

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legolas Original post #1
Apr 2, 2006 at 4:49 PM
hi,

I am workin in FC4 and am behind university firewall. I download some stuffs from online file hosting like rapidshare... but when i download i find that someone else from the same IP (my univ) itself are downloading some other file or watever... how do i know who is downloading? i can see only the ip which is obtained when we see thro whatismyip.com... is there any way for me to know the internal ip? like 192.168.1.40 or so??? i dont think this is hacking... if its pls mention and i ll delete this post.

/legolas
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Apr 2, 2006 at 4:57 PM
Does your university has Dynamically assigned IP through DHCP Servers?
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legolas #3
Apr 2, 2006 at 5:41 PM
yes, i obtain an automatically assigned DHCP address.... but almost all the systems have static assigned IP... but both ways it works.. so i am not sure the person who is downloading whethjer he has automatic or static... it is 99% static... but what is ur soln for both ways?

/legolas
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digen #4
Apr 2, 2006 at 6:23 PM
As I see it your university has a single static public IP or a pool of static public ip's serving clients from within the LAN with either Static NAT or Dynamic NAT.

If that being the case I dont find how you can find out which client is accessing what content(in this case rapidshare for you) unless you are situated in between the Network layer sniffing packets & segregating them.

Or if there being a proxy configured you could find out the info you want from there too but that is out of scope.