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Originally posted by ShawnZ

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Originally posted by andrewdodd13
But if there was no identification at all, how the hell would the router know where to send the packets it receives?

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ehm, you haven't noticed in the last decade that it's a pretty common problem that people behind routers can't set up servers because the routers don't know where to send the packets? that's what port forwarding is for...

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Of course. But that's only because the listening server is behind the NAT. I just didn't realise that the router does some fancy stuff with ports for outgoing connections.

I asked them to explain it when I was there today, basically, they wouldn't tell me how they check, because they thought I was trying to find a way round it. Fun times.