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On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Simon Robert wrote: > I want to fake an IP address to make it look like I'm located in North > America. This is because I have a sony ebook reader and the sony ebook > shop is for America only, us Brits have to use Waterstones which has a > lot less titles and a pretty crap site (easy to end up ordering a real > book by mistake). > > Of course this involves windows only software, adobe for waterstones and > a custom thing for sony. So I have windows 7 running on virtual box for > this. Is it possible to have the virtual machine spoof an IP address? > Then I'd be able to buy titles from the Sony shop. Spoofing your outgoing IP address is relatively easy. However, getting data back to your real IP address, after spoofing the source IP address is impossible. What you need is some sort of proxy server based in the US, or use something like Tor if you can use an exit node located in the US. Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html