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IP Rotation

When you connect to Aluvia, your traffic is routed through mobile IP addresses. IP rotation refers to changing the mobile IP address through which your traffic is routed.

Rotate your IP address by changing your connection's session ID attribute. Each time you change the connection's session ID, Aluvia routes your traffic to a different upstream mobile IP address. The session ID can be any alphanumeric string that you generate.

Benefits​

  • Enhanced Anonymity: Makes it harder to track user activity across requests
  • Load Distribution: Spreads requests across multiple proxy servers
  • Bypass Rate Limits: Different IPs can help circumvent per-IP rate limiting
  • Geolocation Diversity: Access content from different geographical locations

How long do IPs last?​

When you rotate your IP address, you will be assigned a new one from the pool of available mobile IP addresses. Because mobile IP addresses are assigned by mobile carriers, we cannot explicitly control how long your new IP address will be available. You should generally expect the max availability time of a mobile IP address to be about 10 minutes.

Rotate IPs using the Aluvia client​

Change your connection's session ID to rotate the IP.

 // setting a session ID enables sticky sessions
await client.updateSessionId('session1');

See Manage Connections for examples.

Rotate IP using the -session parameter​

In instances where you cannot use the SDK or API (e.g., using a third-party proxy client), you can rotate your IP by adding the -session parameter and a session ID to your connection's username.

myusername-session-abc123