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Alessio Pace wrote:
| I have a question about how to keep a hole open on a router after having
| performed the hole punching procedure.
|
| Assuming peer A (natted) and peer B (natted) are both correctly sending
| and receiving messages to each other.
|
| To keep holes open on both sides, is it necessary that there is incoming
| data in both direction or just from one to another, to make both routers
| believe there is still a "session" among them? I mean, if it is only
| peer A who sends keepalive messages to B, does peer B's router close the
| hole because there is no outgoing data from B itself ?

I suppose this is an implementation issue of the router of B. Different
routers may behave differently :)
Why not go the safe way and also make B send keep alive messages?

Markus


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