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Is anyone else having problems with a changing IP address?
I've had the Home Internet service for 3 months now and I'm generally happy with it, but one thing is rather annoying. The external IP address that gets assigned to my gateway keeps changing. This ha...
So the device has already NAT'ed my address to map between IPV6 and IPV4 with the first persistent TCP connection that is made. Why does the device need to map a NEW IPV4 address for the next connection that goes out? Just lazy software implementation? Even if they have overallocated their NAT pool, the other members of the TCP tuple (source port primarily) should be able to chosen to make the NAT translation unique for a given destination address and port.
Mike
