Addressing nat issues

Scott C. Best sbest "at" best.com
Fri Sep 14 18:49:01 2007


Giacomo:

 	Hello! Yes, EchoVNC does it that way: http://www.echovnc.com
The clients use something called "echoWare"; it's available for Windows,
OSX, and Linux. The "relay server" is available for Windows and Linux.

cheers,
Scott

> Hello everyone,
> when connecting to an host behind NATs (Networks Address Translators),
> theres to do port forwarding from/to every NAT in the route; i know it
> is possible to address this problem with the "Listening VNC viewer"
> feature which makes the viewer to bind a port and get called by a remote
> server which is the behind-nat-host; but whats the solution if both ends
> are behind some NATs ?
>
> A solution i can see is to run a special, listening, "VNC Proxy"
> application in a host with public IP address and let the
> behind-nat-hosts connect to it; it will do the trick, forwarding the
> data through the incoming connections.
>
> Theres anything like this around ? Theres anything for Linux OS ?
>
> Regards,
> Giacomo.