Re: Comcast problems again

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Carey Tyler Schug
<[email protected]> wrote:
> what makes NAT different from several browsers on one computer is unclear.

Nothing really, or all sorts of things:

browsers send headers, headers contain stuff that will be different,
like what brower/os it is.

If everything is the same, then nothing is different.



> OK, and I'm presuming if (in the same computer) another browser tab or a
> different browse sends out a second request to the same website, it asks for
> a response on port Y1.
>
> How are Y and Y1 chosen?

I believe it is random, but I don't feel like finding a source.
predictable could be exploited.



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