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Forum How To Focus / Re: Can’t Access Site: 403 Error!
« Last post by Michael Trigoboff on Today at 02:15:52 AM »Roger Brenizer told me I could avoid this problem by sending him the IP addresses of each of the devices I access the forum with. This puzzled me, because I was pretty sure the IP addresses would all be identical, using the external IP address of my router/gateway.
But I checked, and two of my four iPads had IP addresses different from this, which was completely mystifying to me until I found out about an iOS feature called iCloud Private Relay. This feature spoofs an iOS device’s IP address by relaying communications through a sequence of two servers so that the device’s IP address comes up different from the actual external IP address of the home gateway. Somehow, those two iPads had this feature switched on. When I turned it off on both of these iPads, they immediately reverted to the external IP address of the gateway.
All of my devices now have the same IP address, which is the external IP address of my Xfinity gateway.
But I checked, and two of my four iPads had IP addresses different from this, which was completely mystifying to me until I found out about an iOS feature called iCloud Private Relay. This feature spoofs an iOS device’s IP address by relaying communications through a sequence of two servers so that the device’s IP address comes up different from the actual external IP address of the home gateway. Somehow, those two iPads had this feature switched on. When I turned it off on both of these iPads, they immediately reverted to the external IP address of the gateway.
All of my devices now have the same IP address, which is the external IP address of my Xfinity gateway.