Obtaining Real IP Address

I need to find out how to obtaining a real IP address from our cable service, all web requests are intercepted by a web cache so it looks like your IP is different to what it actually is, I have been told that I can have a piece of code that sits on my server then send some sort of request to the server which will return me I true IP address and also the address of the cache

Could someone tell me how to do this please

Regards

Chetty

As in this link but this show the address of my local cache

Thanks

Are you sure your browser wasn't just configured by their software to use a proxy, and that it's not actively filtering HTTP traffic to re-route it? (such a thing seems a bit processing-intensive).

As for your question, if the modem is directly hooked up to your system, just start > run > "cmd" > "ipconfig"

This pops up a msgbox:

VB Code:

Option Explicit
' Add Microsoft Internet Transfer Control
 
Dim pubIPA As String, pos1 As Long, pos2 As Long
      
Private Sub Form_Load()
    Text2.Text = Inet1.OpenURL("http://vbnet.mvps.org/resources/tools/getpublicip.shtml", icString)
    pos1 = InStr(Text2.Text, "var ip =")
    pos1 = InStr(pos1 + 1, Text2.Text, "'", vbTextCompare) + 1
    pos2 = InStr(pos1 + 1, Text2.Text, "'", vbTextCompare)
    pubIPA = Mid$(Text2.Text, pos1, pos2 - pos1)
    MsgBox pubIPA, vbInformation
    Unload Me
End Sub