On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:38:16PM +0000, Theodore Hong wrote: > We talk a lot about transport independence, but so far we've only got TCP. > Here's an article which describes a way to make connections to firewalled > hosts by using UDP: > > http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20001117S0015 > > Is this something we should look into? This relates to Christian Huitema's > presentation at the P2P conference about how NATs might kill off > peer-to-peer. > > theo
Perhaps there should be a UDP transport layer, but I can't see how we could use UDP to pierce firewalls. The hack mentioned in the article requires help from a centralized, non-firewalled server for the NAT'd machines to start talking directly to each other. -- /* tavin cole * composer of e-mail messages */ _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://www.uprizer.com/mailman/listinfo/devl
