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by FuriouslyAdrift 1043 days ago
And then we are back to NAT...
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Yes. What were you expecting? There's no way for a v4-only device to reply to a packet from a v6 source address otherwise. The source address has to be mapped to an address the v4-only device understands, and then mapped back again for the reply packets.

How else could this work?