[OFFTOPIC] RE: A simple, solid and stable P2P Bidirectional NAT Traversal te chnique for RealVNC users...

[James Weatherall]

Alex,

I'm afraid the citation links seem to be broken (nat.html is missing), so
it's difficult to see any of the supporting documentation for this.

As it stands, UDP "hole-punching" fundamentally requires that your NAT
router allow UDP traffic through, which is not something most good NAT
firewall/router boxes won't do unless configured to.

Regards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Pankratov [mailto:ap "at" hamachi.cc] 
> Sent: 03 March 2005 02:35
> To: James Weatherall
> Cc: 'John Aldrich'; vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: Re: A simple, solid and stable P2P Bidirectional NAT 
> Traversal te chnique for RealVNC users...
> 
> James,
> 
> It is very much possible. See the paper Scott linked for the basic
> idea behind it (the idea is BTW few years old already) -
> 
> 	http://www.brynosaurus.com/pub/net/p2pnat
> 
> Alex