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People need to know their IP or else they dont know if it has changed. Task #137

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@ -201,12 +201,24 @@ thing, to hide your SSL traffic. Using privoxy is <b>necessary</b> because
DNS requests when it uses a SOCKS proxy directly</a>. Privoxy also gives
you good html scrubbing.</p>
<p>To test if it's working, go to
<p>To test if it's working, you need to know your normal IP address so you can
verify that the address really changes when running Tor.
If you are using Linux or OSX your local IP address is shown by the <tt>ifconfig</tt>
command. Under Windows go to the Start menu, click Run and enter <tt>cmd</tt>.
At the command prompt, enter <tt>ipconfig</tt>. If you are behind a NAT/Firewall
you can use one of the sites listed below to check which IP you are using.
When that is done, start Tor and Privoxy and visit any of the sites again.
If everything works, your IP address should have changed.
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<p>
<!--<a href="http://peertech.org/privacy-knoppix/">peertech</a>, -->
<a href="http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy">junkbusters</a>,
<a href="http://www.network-tools.com">network-tools</a> or
<a href="http://ipid.shat.net">ipid</a>
and see what IP it says you're coming from.
are sites that basically shows your present IP so you can see
what address you're coming from.
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