From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Tony Wan <visual2me@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: does NAT based on iptables support TCP hole punch?
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:57:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090610215731.694c3661@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <69b8237b0906102042q647797bdl88e16be088af6f45@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:42:44 +0800
Tony Wan <visual2me@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> It's said that TCP hole punch does not work if both endpoints come
> from 2 sub-networks, whose NAT are both implemented by iptables. I
> just want to make sure whether this is true. If so, what type of nat
> can iptables work as? full-cone, restricted, port restricted, or
> symmetric?
>
> Sorry if it's not appropriate to ask such a question here. Thanks in advance.
You might want to look up STUNT which uses an intermediary to open the NAT tunnel.
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2009-06-11 3:42 does NAT based on iptables support TCP hole punch? Tony Wan
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