IP ban

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Is there any way to ban an ip address going through a router.

 

I have a ip ban contribution added, and it works fine, but here is what I would like to do.

 

I would like to be able to ban only one specific computer, this computer is on a LAN. How do I ban this one computer out of 5 on the router?

 

Also, can someone explain IP's. Ex say there exists an IP address 65.185.145.145. Is this for a single home or is this IP used by many users in a city. I am wondering, because if it is used by many computers in a city than if you ban that IP because of one bad user, than you are banning many others.

 

I would just like an explanation.

 

Thanks

[germ]

Is there any way to ban an ip address going through a router.

 

I have a ip ban contribution added, and it works fine, but here is what I would like to do.

 

I would like to be able to ban only one specific computer, this computer is on a LAN. How do I ban this one computer out of 5 on the router?

 

Also, can someone explain IP's. Ex say there exists an IP address 65.185.145.145. Is this for a single home or is this IP used by many users in a city. I am wondering, because if it is used by many computers in a city than if you ban that IP because of one bad user, than you are banning many others.

 

I would just like an explanation.

 

Thanks

If all 5 of the computers access the Internet via that one router that means they share the same IP address and you can't block just one.

 

It's all or none.

 

An IP address is to your computer like a street addrss or P.O. box to a house or apartment.

 

The mail arrives to a street addrss or P.O. box via it's "unique" address.

 

In the same fashion signals on the Internet arrive to your PC via it's IP address.

 

That being said, just like you can't have two "123 Main Street" addresses in the same city, you can't have two computers on the same network that with the same IP address.

 

I suppose there may be a lot more technical things that could be said about IP addresses but I hope this is enough to explain the basics.

 

How a router works is that it uses one IP address to connect to the Internet.

 

And it creates it's own LAN so that each computer connected to it has it's own unique IP address on the LAN.

 

Now, how it knows what signal coming in on the Internet goes to what computer locally I have no clue!

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