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[sommerfeld]

Is it one of the SMC ones? If so, we've seen issues in the past with those where it was doing NAT behind the scenes and basically still proxying the traffic sent to the public IP. What model do you have

SMC model 8014, running firmware version 4.01.20-CCR

from a quick look at TCP traffic from another static ip I don't see sequence numbers or ip identifiers being rewritten -- it's not actually doing anything to the traffic it's allowing through.

followup: it appears that the "internet folk wisdom" on the smc 8014 is to check the "disable smart packet detection" box, which is unchecked by default. I have not been able to find a description of what this option actually does (there's a one-sentence description in a manual I found on dslreports), but there seems to be a unanimous belief that SMC's "smart packet detection" is a bad idea.

followup 2: this may have helped but the problem isn't completely gone -- had another silent call after disabling the feature.