Home network privacy
I_Am_Will_
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Hi there,
I have a little question about home network privacy to do with port forwarding.
Ill call the two computers, computer A and computer B.
ok, ill try and explain this as well as i can.
Computer A configures the router to forward port 80 to itself 192.168.0.2.
Does this mean that if computer B 192.168.0.4, sends out a request for a webpage, data from that webpage will be sent through to computer A.
Therefore, knowing the website accessed by computer B. Any help is appreciated.
Will
I have a little question about home network privacy to do with port forwarding.
Ill call the two computers, computer A and computer B.
ok, ill try and explain this as well as i can.
Computer A configures the router to forward port 80 to itself 192.168.0.2.
Does this mean that if computer B 192.168.0.4, sends out a request for a webpage, data from that webpage will be sent through to computer A.
Therefore, knowing the website accessed by computer B. Any help is appreciated.
Will
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1 - you have a hardware router, address 192.168.0.1
2 - you have Computer A, address 192.168.0.2
3 - You have Computer B, address 192.168.0.4.
4 - The router is configured to have all incoming port 80 traffic to Computer A at 192.168.0.2.
5 - You want to know if any web request from Computer B will go to A?
If that is the case, the answer is no for most consumer routers. Port forwarding deals with unsolicited incoming traffic. For instance, if you were running a web server, and someone queried your IP address, they would be routed at your router to Computer A.
But in the case of Computer B surfing to a webpage, that is traffic solicited from within the LAN. So if computer B opens a TCP/IP socket, requests a page, the router returns that traffic to Computer B. Computer A does not see it, in the case of most conusmer routers it is just not possible to fine tune traffic in the way you have described.
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