>> I have a question regarding the original direction - currently it is >> linked to the client which actively initiates a connection. DCCP >> suffers from the problem that peer-to-peer NAT traversal is not >> really possible just because of this client/server division. There >> is a proposal which effects a pseudo simultaneous open, by letting >> the server send an initiation packet, to fix this problem (TCP >> peer-to-peer NAT traversal also favours simultaneous-open). I wonder >> if this would be possible, but it is really a future-work question. > > Yes, that should be possible. But how does the server know that > the client intends to initiate a connection? > This is outside the actual NAT implementation, via out-of-band, e.g. using SIP or Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (draft-ietf-behave-rfc3489bis). In this regard, the role-reversal patch will be a great help, since it will allow support for peer-to-peer NAT traversal (i.e. NAT-ed server). The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
