Tom, > I suppose it's the same as for any NAT situation, a node trying to send > packets to another in a MAP domain has to know in advance what port to send > to. Otherwise (for shared addresses), the packet is likely to be routed to > the wrong CE. Should the examples mention that the port (e.g., port 9030 in > example 2) is known in advance to be one that will reach the desired endpoint? > > Is there anything special about MAP compared with the general NAT situation > that makes it easier or harder for senders to learn what ports they can send > to?
no, not as far as I can see. any end to end communication using TCP or UDP requires the initiator of the communication to know which port to connect to. cheers, Ole _______________________________________________ Softwires mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/softwires
