From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John A. Sullivan III" Subject: Re: Apps that try to do net-to-nat Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:40:58 -0500 Sender: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <1075495257.20475.2.camel@jasiiitosh.nexusmgmt.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Errors-To: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: jago25_98@catholic.org Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 15:11, Jago Pearce wrote: > I'm behind NAT at work and I need to connect to home, which is also behind > NAT. > > What programs have tried to get past the NAT problem? I heard that mnet, the > p2p program uses a ticketing system to pass messages. Any other programs > that have attempted to do nat-to-nat and done so successfully? In particular > - VoIP? I'm used to the VPN world so for me the obvious choice is to set up a VPN tunnel between home and office. Hopefully it's not a major concern but an added benefit is that your VoIP is encrypted and not subject to useful interception. OpenS/WAN (http://www.openswan.org) should work nicely if your are running Linux on your gateway. -- John A. Sullivan III Chief Technology Officer Nexus Management +1 207-985-7880 john.sullivan@nexusmgmt.com --- If you are interested in helping to develop a GPL enterprise class VPN/Firewall/Security device management console, please visit http://iscs.sourceforge.net