On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 09:29:49AM -0600, david at aminal.com wrote:
> All of the nat'd nodes will look to the outside world like they have the same
> IP address, but that shouldn't matter, because Freenet routing is done based 
> on
> Node ID's. (I hope). THe gateway recieves incoming traffic, and routes based 
> on
> its knowledge of Node ID's and internal addresses.

How do you travese the NAT-GW. 
We cannot assume we have controll over the gateway (IP-relay)
or that software is even installable on it (fred on gw).
The relay node must be available on the outside/internet.
As I mentioned earlier today, I am think about persistant connections
initiated from the inside of the GW.

> To an Internal node on the private network, the outside world looks like it 
> has
> one IP address, and many Node ID's. THe IP  address is the one of the gateway
> machine, and the gateway machine takes care of  attaching the real IP address 
> to
> the Node ID of the machine in the real world.

Many time you can't connect to the outside address of the GW from the inside,
stupid but true.
The inside nodes must be "seeded" with the other node on the same network
and connect to it directly for this to work.

> That said, gateways really suck. 

True, but we have not always the freedom to choose.

regards,
-- 
G?ran Thyni




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