David A. Ranch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The reason why I'm skeptical is that when a packet comes in on your
> cablemodem, the sending server is expecting ACKs from that same IP.
> Yet, on this setup, the ACKs come back from the analog modem with a
> different IP address. Why doesn't the remote server complain about
> this?
The packets sent over the modem go to the same ISP that routes traffic
to your cable modem. As such, they are free to masquerade the traffic
to the remote destination to make it see one IP address. :)
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