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I'm fairly convinced you just used on online technical jargon generator for 100% of this comment. There are a dozen ways to spoof your IP address for TCP/UDP/SC

I'm fairly convinced you just used on online technical jargon generator for 100% of this comment. There are a dozen ways to spoof your IP address for TCP/UDP/SCTP/DCCP/STP/DTP/etc. connection (Even HTTPS - Don t know why you feel this makes any difference whatsover). Like the other the comment has suggested VPN's are a very effective way to to such a task...really any proxy system in general, TOR works as well. Hell, just have a friend leave a RaspberryPi in his house would work and tunnel TCP over SSH to it... I'm going to use too many electrons informing you on the plethora of ways to spoof an IP address.

throwaway2016a 9y ago
I could be wrong but I think what you are describing is technically "masking" To me "spoofing" implies packet shaping. I tried to find a good definitive difference between the two and couldn't find one. So as I said, could definitely be wrong.
- eudoxus 9y ago
  I think its pretty fair to assume to comment was referring to the process of tricking a website into thinking you are at a different IP address then what is actually assigned by your ISP... :/
RKearney 9y ago
Let me clarify then. In order to connect to a remote machine (in this case, a website) your computer must make a TCP connection to the remote server. A TCP connection requires a three-way handshake to begin. This requires the sender (you) send a TCP SYN packet. If you "spoof" your IP address, the SYN ACK will never reach your machine, and you will therefore never be able to ACK back (with your "spoofed" IP). Because you never get this SYN ACK back with the servers initial sequence number, you will not be able to ACK back with the correct sequence number to even connect in the first place. I'm fairly convinced you don't know how basic networking principals work, or at least do not know the difference between spoofing and proxying.

throwaway2016a 9y ago

I could be wrong but I think what you are describing is technically "masking" To me "spoofing" implies packet shaping. I tried to find a good definitive difference between the two and couldn't find one. So as I said, could definitely be wrong.

eudoxus 9y ago
I think its pretty fair to assume to comment was referring to the process of tricking a website into thinking you are at a different IP address then what is actually assigned by your ISP... :/

RKearney 9y ago

Let me clarify then. In order to connect to a remote machine (in this case, a website) your computer must make a TCP connection to the remote server. A TCP connection requires a three-way handshake to begin. This requires the sender (you) send a TCP SYN packet. If you "spoof" your IP address, the SYN ACK will never reach your machine, and you will therefore never be able to ACK back (with your "spoofed" IP). Because you never get this SYN ACK back with the servers initial sequence number, you will not be able to ACK back with the correct sequence number to even connect in the first place. I'm fairly convinced you don't know how basic networking principals work, or at least do not know the difference between spoofing and proxying.