>The upshot is, the machine running the proxy probably has a 192.168.0.x >address. That is the address you need to use for the proxyAddress.
-_- It works now. >Oh, wow. Where to begin? You can't just pluck an IP address out of the ether and expect everything to just work. It turns out I was misunderstanding what "proxyAddress" meant. Polipo is tragically unclear; If they mentioned that "proxyAddress = address on your network through which the other device >will use as a proxy<" it would have saved me a ton of time and effort. >I don't mean this to sound >patronising (and I'm truly sorry if it does), but if you don't even >know the basics of IP networking then I'd strongly advise *not* >attempting what you are doing. You are going to compromise your >anonymity. The Tor Browser does all the technical stuff for you and >leaves you to concentrate on being safe. I think it would be >irresponsible to give you a canned solution; blindly following >instructions merely provides a false sense of security. Please just >don't take the risk. :-( >Julian >All that said, I would recomend doing a bit of reading up on how IP networks >work, and learn the issues involved. I can't even go into right now what my >concerns with this setup would be, if it were being used for something serious. >However if you just want the bragging rites for having your wii connect over >tor, that IP would be where I would look. >-Steve All in all, it's a matter of lazy convenience. I prefer to browse through a computer with a secure browser (Opera with Tor is sufficient for my needs), but that is not an option due to recent hardware failures. This old desktop will likely crash if I try to use a Tor browser, and isn't compatible with the latest PC and Windows security updates. Some of the mistakes I made are from following "canned solutions", which is reckless, but I'd rather make all of the mistakes I can before I actually come to need such important security measures as Tor. All in all, this setup will allow me to do what I need and the rest will be on a combination of my habits and plausible deniability (the Wii doesn't keep a browser history) ;) Thanks, folks. ...also, when I brag to other people that I'm the first person to do this, I might need to "borrow" those technical warnings. Hope you people don't mind. -Mason _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
