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Comment by ablob

13 hours ago

If the IP address was leaked, wouldn't it be the address of the unit doing the NAT translation instead of the standard-gateway?

In the case of IPv4 - you almost certainly would get the external IP address of the unit doing NAT translation. In the case of IPv6 - it's quite common (outside of the enterprise world) for the Native IPv6 address of the device to be routed directly onto the internet - desirable even.

In the case of a 'leaked" address - there are all sorts of ways in which internal details of an address can leak even when it's not in the DST/SRC envelope of the packet on the Internet.