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Originally Posted by chaley
EDIT: unless your machine has been hacked and you have a botnet slave running, changing the IP to confuse anti-bot tracing
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That would be unlikely unless his computer was connected directly to the internet. No matter what his internal address is, the packets would appear on the WAN with the router's external address. For example, your internal LAN uses 192.168.65.1-192.168.65.254 as the internal address while the router talks to your ISP using 92.67.26.17. No matter which internal address you use, a Google search on what's my ip address or visiting whatismyip.com, whatismyipaddress.com or similar site will show 92.67.26.17 as your public IP v4 address.
Edit: Perhaps the OP should check out
What is DHCP and how does it work? or any similar site with a basic introduction to DHCP.