xerces8 wrote: > Hi! > > Recently someone mentioned on this (or maybe other...) list a seldom used > technique of establishing a TCP connection without one host listening on a port, > but but acting as "clients" and connecting to the peers port. > > My question: Can this be used to establish a TCP connection between two hosts that > are both behind a (P)NAT router ? > > (the idea being: NAT router lets outgoing connections thru, and in this case both > NAT router would see an "outgoing" connection) > > If yes, this would simplify the life of many users :-) It's a bit more complicated than that. See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_hole_punching>. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
