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Re:We're about to hit phase 3 of ARIN IPV4 rationing by 0x0 on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @07:07AM (#6132887)
Some cheap NAT devices rewrites stuff that "looks like" the internal IP addresses inside the TCP payload, in a hackish attempt to "fix" things like FTP and other protocols that send addresses in the payload. A really stupid and dangerous way to do things, but it's been known to happen.
Re:We're about to hit phase 3 of ARIN IPV4 rationing by tjgq on Thursday August 01, 2013 @04:37AM (#6139238)
Crazy. Has that been observed in carrier-grade NAT boxes, though? Or only in el-cheapo residential devices? It seems an incredible risk to the carriers to do things that way.