Private relay getting stuck

andrew from one tree hill wrote:

Using private relay on MacOS 12.4 with private relay enabled. If the endpoint is being provided by Akamai, then the presented IPv4 address is from a /24 address span and changes (about) hourly. BUT most of the time the endpoint is being provided by CloudFlare from a /30 address span, and changes (about) once every 6 to 8 hours (and with such a small range of addresses generally flips back and forth between two addresses).

When the address is being provided by Akamai, every device I have (iPad and another Mac) has a seperate IPv4 address. When the end point address is being provided by CloudFlare, every device has the same IPv4 address (difference IPv6 address).

It appears that when the end point is being provided by Akamai that the service is working as intended; but with CloudFlare it isn't.

Is there any way to force Akamai???

(Note - making changes to the "IP address location" has absolutely no effect - but that may be an artefact of my location - there is only one major city in my time zone in my country!

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andrew from one tree hill wrote:

Private relay getting stuck

Using private relay on MacOS 12.4 with private relay enabled.

(Note - making changes to the "IP address location" has absolutely no effect - but that may be an artefact of my location - there is only one major city in my time zone in my country!

It’s worth noting that the “Limit IP Address Tracking” option must be enabled for each different network,

"Limit IP tracking in mail and safari" if turned off—will kill private relay.

Turn it on, then reboot.

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