James Weatherall wrote:
Alex,
I'm afraid the citation links seem to be broken (nat.html is missing), so it's difficult to see any of the supporting documentation for this.
Works for me just fine, but here's a direct link anyway - http://www.brynosaurus.com/pub/net/p2pnat.pdf
And few more links while we are at it :) -
http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~dank/peer-nat.html http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/nat-charter.html
As it stands, UDP "hole-punching" fundamentally requires that your NAT router allow UDP traffic through, which is not something most good NAT firewall/router boxes won't do unless configured to.
Ok, I'm going to assume that by 'UDP traffic through' you mean 'inbound UDP', because 'most good NAT' don't block outbound UDP unless they are severly locked down. And if you manage to look at the above paper, you will see that 'hole punching' doesn't require inbound UDP access. In fact it's a technique for working around this kind of restriction.
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