Kazumara

As @shane@feddit.nl says, you can use the same public port for many different destination address, vendors may call it something like “port overloading”.

I just responded to him on that point, while you were typing to me. I didn't know this existed, thanks for pointing it out!

More importantly, you can install a large pool of public address on your CGNAT. For instance if you install a /20 pool, work with a 100 users / public address multiplexing, you can have 400,000 users on that CGNAT. 100 users / address is a comfortable ratio that will not affect most users. 1000 users / address would be pushing it, but I’m sure some ISP will try it.

Sure, yeah, I have seen a few threads on NANOG about the NAT address ratios people are using. I also think I remember someone saying he was forced to use 1000 and it kind of worked as long as he pulled the heaviest users out of the pool. But if I recall correctly he was also saying he made IPv6 available in parallel to reduce the CGNAT load.

But the point that made this post ridiculous and an obvious joke is that it said "one address" :-)

A TCP session is a unique combination of client IP, client port, server IP, and server port. So you can use the same IP and port as long as the destination is a different IP or port.

Fair point! I wasn't aware of any NAT working that way, but they could exist, I agree. It does blow up the session table a bit, but we are taking about a hell of a large theoretical system here anyway, so it's not impossible.

This wouldn’t help going to popular destinations, since they have a lot of people going to the same IP address and port, but for many (most?) of them you probably have some sort of CDN servers in your data centers anyway.

Actually we have recently seen a few content providers not upgrading their cache servers and instead preferring to fall back to our PNIs (which to be fair are plenty fast and have good enough latencies). On the other hand others made new ones available recently. Seems there isn't a universal best strategy the industry is converging on at the moment.

Funny how many here took this to be real, judging from the reactions. To me it's an obvious joke.

Question to you guys: How do you suppose 200 million customers will share the less than 65'536 ports that are available on that one address?

Up to the third comma, yes, but all the rest seems to go beyond that pretty arbitrarily.

When they say anything that "may damage the goodwill of the corporation", and qualify that with "in the sole discretion of the Corporation" that just means "anything we don't want to be associated with, and we will be the judge of that".

That's what makes it so vague, how is a Merchant or an Acquirer supposed to know what Mastercard might find damaging to the goodwill? They have to guess, or use trial and error*. Most will just err on the side of caution, which means customers get blocked from even more purchases, just to be safe.

* Or talk to Mastercard, which Valve apparently tried, but they wouldn't respond.

Brilliant, just make your rules vague and force everyone else down the chain to self-censor. Surely this will result in the best outcome.

Fucking mastercard

Clever! So the first drone simply brings a self disassembly kit, a handsaw and some tourniquets.

Good title, when the twist came it gave me a secondary chuckle

This reminds me of the ever escalating sign up bonuses that Russian regional offices are offering to recruits.

Not great company to be in

I use one of two strategies depending on what I still have the hardware for:

• Install a supported OS.
• Don't connect it to the internet anymore.

That's ironic for me. The version of that song that I know best is the Cover sung by Senzawa/Gawr Gura/Sameko Saba so from quite deep within weeb Youtube

I did not find Nattō that bad actually. You need to spread it out over enough rice.

That said, I had a dish recently, stir fried prawn with Thai "stinky beans" that reminded me of Nattō somehow. To be fair they did warn me that it really was stinky when I tried ordering it. I insisted to try it anyway. It was really difficult to get down. It really did stink on my plate. I had to carefully ensure that no spoonful had to much of the bean mush. It was salty and gave the impression of decay.

The article says that one drone was shot down and one crashed under the weight of the ebike.

A soldier will be significantly heavier than an ebike. And you can risk them being shot down less than just the bike