Trace IP of poster

IS there anyway with Phorum for me to trace the IP address of a poster. I get that it will come back to their router, but that is fine. Additionally, how about MAC addresses? Thanks

Phorum logs the IP that comes in with the post in the database. In most cases this is the assigned IP from the internet provider. If they go through an anonymizer, the logged IP is that of the anonymizing company.

In the admin, you can change whether the IP is shown to regular users, admins always see it.
Event logging captures the IP address and logs it if enabled.

Don't know how or if you can get a mac address.

If you are attempting to block spam, there are other tools/modules to assist.

Yes, I figured it would be the assigned IP of the Router's WAN. Interesting. A VPN of course would throw that off as well.

Thank you for the reply.

MAC is not possible, you only get that in the direct LAN area, not other the internet.

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Thomas Seifert