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Orbi VPN does not change IP
I've looked through many threads regarding this topic but none of the threads have a final answer; they're all abandoned. I have set up DDNS (NoIP.com), and set up VPN with the "all internet and...
I do not trust the chicken. Please try again with a different web site.
I use OpenVPN to administer two Orbi systems. I did the test you described:
- Disconnect phone from WiFi to use cellular data
- Open Hot Spot on phone
- Connect laptop to Hot Spot and use IPChiken to learn IP address of phone
- Changed laptop to OpenVPN connected to my home Orbi.
- IPChik says the public IP address remains the same! (WTF???)
- Changed to whatismyipaddress.com. NOW my public IP is the same as my home Orbi.
- I am one cynical old bugger, but I have a suspicion that the chicken is reading out of browser cache, has left a cookie, or something. Two requests from the same browser a few minutes apart. What could have changed???
This use of OpenVPN to appear to be somewhere else is well known. Aside from bandwidth/latency issues it should work.
I have no apples, so my experiment was done using Windows.
Can you give this another try and check the public IP against several test sites?