Hi, If anyone is interested, we have developed an alternative approach to firewall/NAT traversal using TCP.
If you are interested in how it works, let me know. If you are interested in trying it out you can download it from http://www.leafnetworks.net Here is a brief overview of what we do... The Leaf 2006 client software uses "Out-of-Band TCP Signaling" to form a TCP connection between two computers running the Leaf 2006 client software. This out-of-band signaling is achieved by creating a control channel that is setup using the Leaf Peer Server and used to broker all the TCP signaling traffic. Once the TCP connection is formed, the control channel is torn down and there is a direct TCP connection between each computer. Once this socket connection is formed, it is used to create a virtual private network (VPN) interface that you see as the Leaf Network Adapter on your computer. Most VPN solutions that tunnel traffic over a TCP socket connection suffer from performance degradation - up to 40% loss in bandwidth. However, we have solved this problem and you will achieve full bandwidth connectivity between two computers connected in a Leaf Network. Once the private network is formed, we protect it with a built in firewall for the Leaf Network Adapter. _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
