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Originally Posted by asphaltgambler
...If someone can see what that is, can't they use that to obtain the device addresses to hack?....
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Technically yes but you can't hide your public address with a firewall.
Any hardened firewall you added to what you already have would still have the same public IP
You are adding complexity and not solving your problem which really is not a problem.
If you want to obfuscate your true IP you should be looking at a VPN service.
I have to logon to developer systems hosted by Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, for some of my work.
I can only login from an IP that's whitelisted on their end which sucks when travelling or remote, as in not in my home or office, IP addresses that are known to them and authorized for access.
I pay for a dedicated IP from Nord so not matter where I am I look like i'm coming from the same place which is not where I really am.
Nord is dirt cheap if you don't need a dedicated IP which you don't.
VPN's do impart a bit of a bandwidth hit but a consumer grade user would never really notice.
VPN's can be useful to get around geo fences.
Last week I had to check on something in Australia and kept hitting a CAPTCHA from the partner every time I hit their site.
Got really annoying so I logged into Nord, picked Australia as where I wanted to appear to be coming from and problem solved, no more CAPTCHA because I was now inside the geo fence.