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Re: ISPs only forwarding outgoing traffic coming from their IPs?



Hi!

> While working on a gateway with two DSLs I found that I couldn't send traffic
> from the wrong address and expect a response on the other interface.

How should your ISP know, where to send the replies? You official IP is in
their routing tables, that's it.

This is actually a common problem with routing. Not only do you have to
reach your destination, the destination has to reach you, too.

Jörn



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