On Tuesday 05 August 2008 17:42:14 ext Iljitsch van Beijnum, you wrote: > On 5 aug 2008, at 16:09, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: > >> What's the difficulty with TCP? If I understand things correctly, > >> once > >> you use a certain port as a source port number on the public side, a > >> behave-compliant NAT will forward incoming sessions towards that port > >> number to you. So the only thing the application has to do is figure > >> out what the address/port is that others see and not release the port > >> number and it's in business. > > > > The passive side of the TCP connections can hardly be behind a NAT. > > Isn't that the whole point of endpoint independent NATing?
If you prefer it that way: most NATs and just about all firewalls are not at all BEHAVE-TCP-compliant today. -- Rémi Denis-Courmont Maemo Software, Nokia Devices R&D _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
