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NAT (Forwarding) in T-Mobile Gateway
From what I understand, T-Mobile deploys 464XLAT. Meaning your IPv4 connections are translated over IPv6. This means IPv4s are not assigned in anyway to a traditional home-ISP, and instead IPv4 WAN are pooled and NAT'd together. This was reportedly done due to IP assignment issues, and used to mitigate and rollout to IPv6 at the same time. Business customers have the option to purchase a static IP which will remove your connection from the NAT pool and begin translating inbound IPv4 connections as if they were direct native IPv4. I'm not sure why T-Mobile is unable to provide this for free to all consumers. It may be a result of simply not having enough IPv4 allocation available, in which case how is that ever going to be fixed without freeing up used IPv4s? Or, it may be a system scalability issue that may need resolved. Who knows, but understand this problem is a little bit more complex than simply clicking a button. Currently for consumer home internet plans, there are no options for inbound IPv4 addresses, or opting out of the NAT system that the rest of the mobile-device network uses.
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