Posted by Toby A Inkster on 01/19/08 23:50

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

> Additionally, some larger corporations and ISPs use multiple proxies;
> each request can come from a different IP, even though it's a single
> computer. AOL is famous for this.

Our office has about 70-80 workstations, hardly a large corporation, but
we have two ADSL lines (with different ISPs, for redundancy) and one SDSL
line coming into the building, all connected to a load-balancing router.
So requests from a single visitor in the office may well be distributed
between three IP addresses.

And that load-balancing router wasn't bespoke for us -- it's mass-produced.

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