On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Stephen Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt (or anyone else), have you gotten as far as thinking about NAT hole > punching or some other solution for peer-to-peer?
"NAT hole punching" has no solution because it's not a problem you can fix. If I administrate the border security for my network and I do not want your protocol running, I will block the port it uses. If you dynamically change ports to avoid this, you'll find your software blacklisted with a slew of scumware that is actively removed from the computers it infests. If you are welcome within the network, it is much less hassle (for everyone) if you properly ask for access and use bandwidth intelligently. To address your issue with P2P being blocked by ISP, you could allow those nodes with public server capability to proxy connections to client-only nodes. I know that sounds like undue pain, but this is exactly the kind of modular flexibility that distributed agents should be able to work out in response to varying network conditions (my $0.02) ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=101455710-f059c4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
