people have told me, "unplug your modem and plug it back in" ?

Ive got an ADSL modem thats connected to the pc via usb cable then the other cable goes straight into the phone socket.

So i just unplug what to reset my ip? im not sure how unplugging anything would change my ip, if that was the case my ip should change everytime i turn the pc off because the modem is obviously powered by the pc

Oh im confuzzled, someone enlighten me please

 

Simply unplugging the modem may change your IP, but it's not guarantee, your ISP decides how it works and it may be that it won't reallocate you an IP address ever, or, only do so if you haven't connected for a week.
Others dish out new IPs every time you connect

Who's your ISP ?

And, what have you been up to to want to change your IP

 

Orange, used to be wanadoo.......



And i havent done nothing, just im getting alot of attacks on zonealarm pro and never used to since changing from an orange livebox(wireless thingy) back to the ADSL modem, only reason i changed back is because the livebox kept dropping connection and it got annoying, anyway back to the matter in hand.........

may have to ring them up then if i want it changed

 

I run my net connection from the phone line to a router with integral ADSL modem, and every time you turn off or flash save the router settings you are assigned a new IP address. The IP addresses of the PC's connected to the router always stay the same, but the outwards IP is always changed.....

 

Thrush
You're talking about your own network's IP addresses, as allocated to your PC's by your DSL router.

GTi_iTG
Is on about changing his outward IP address, which usually can be done by disconnecting the USB modem.
As I said though, not all ISPs allocate new IP addresses on disconnection, I could put a USB modem on my adsl line and I know it would get the same IP address, because it's fixed, doesn't change, never will.

Best thing to do, it probably to contact their tech support and ask them, if they can re-allocate you an IP address.

Re-read your first post: The other thing is that the livebox runs a firewall, so that probably blocked 90% or more of these attacks, without the livebox, you are now totally exposed, changing IP probably won't make much of a difference tbh, I doubt someone has singled you out, probably just hitting a range of IP addresses which you happen to belong to.

hth

 

Thanks for the replys folks

Ill probably just leave it then, at the end of the day zonealarm pro is clearly doing its job and blocking everthing, so dont think ill worry about it anymore

 

GTi_iTG
Orange happen to be one of my customers, I'll ask one of their techy guys if I get a chance

What package are you on ?

 

im on 1meg and paying 17.99 a month, i think they call it "Broadband plus" but that includes there livebox which ive now disconnected, so its still that package but with my old ADSL modem.

 

Frog - thats right. For example, 1 of my PC's is allocated 10.0.0.9 as it's network address, and the other is allocated 10.0.0.12. And when I run an IP check on one of the machines (on for example, ipchicken.com) I get (example) 84.63.112.99 and then reboot, and run again it will be different.....

 

Don't assume you are being attacked as Zone alarm will indicate at all activitys including legitimate ones such as port scans which your ISP operates to ensure that you are not abusing their services by running a server os similar, IRC and many other services also do legitimate scans....
Zone alarm can not correctly define the difference between legitimate and non-legitimate services so makes you aware of everything.... The wireless livebox you had previously very likely was a NAT firewalled protected router which due to its abilitys would have stopped zone alarm from making many of these alerts where as a generic modem will not...

The thing to do is read the firewall logs and establish what the alert means and what port is it using before assuming that a change of IP will resolve anything... it could be a ligitimate service scan, if you need help doing this post the logs Zone Alarm creates

Zone alarm is a POS imho that looks like its doing something amazing by alerting the user to all activity including those that the user does not need to care about, it also does little to educate about what is actually happening and how it effects the system, it makes claims about making the system 'stealth' as if this is important to security, which it is not
Zone Alarm has very little effective packet filtering as well.

Your ISP also provides a dynamic IP that releases and renews itself at a given point in time, this is to make it harder for users to run services such as webhosting which requires a static IP to be really effective (although you can get round this). The dynamic ip service means you do not need to ask for a new one as this is provided to you without knowledge of the fact... Freeserve renewed the users IP address twice a week, no idea if this has changed since it became Wanadoo, Orange or whatever its called this week

 

BTW this is because the ISP provides a dynamic IP address. Unplugging your modem for a while ( 20 to 30 minutes ) will allow the IP address assigned to yourself to be assigned to another user which means that when you reconnect because that IP address is ow in use you will be assigned another..

If you unplug and plug back in without a gap in time there is a good chance you will simply pick up the same address again

 

Correct, if the ISP provides a dynamic IP...

20 minutes is usually enough, the linecard at the exchange will detect that it can't communicate with anything at the other end of its line (usually your modem or router), and reset itself in an attempt to re-establish sync.