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[QUOTE="phatjose, post: 638226, member: 27508"]
Dotde, you are partially correct.  A computer will indeed show a 192.168.x.x address when you type in ipconfig in your command prompt (or rarely a 10. address).  That is known as your internal ip address.  That is the ip address other computers on your local network use to identify you.  The address you get when you look it up on sites like whatismyip.com or what have you, is your external address.  This is the address that wide area networks will identify you with.

Think of it like this, you are staying at the Rio in Las Vegas.  To anyone outside of the Rio, your address is you are staying at the Rio.  To anyone inside the Rio, your address is room 1827 or whatever.

As for DHCP, read the part in my previous post about leasing.  You will almost certainly NOT have a new IP address the next time you connect to your ISP's network.  The only times people ever get a brand new IP address is when they 1) go on vacation or 2) manually force an IP dump and refresh (which is not something a normal user does anyway).

MAC addresses are irrelevant to how IP addresses are distributed (although there is a separate topic of MAC cloning and all that good stuff).  Mostly, MAC addresses come into play when you are setting up the security system for a network and you restrict it based on MAC addresses.

As for saying that IP addresses are only good for networking and file sharing, I'd like to point out that if you didn't have a unique IP address, connecting to the internet would be impossible (I won't get into the topic of subnetting since that is really beyond the scope of what is needed for proving collusion in an online poker site).
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