[tahoe-dev] uTP (low extra delay transport)

Brian Parma freecode at cox.net
Wed May 26 00:21:30 UTC 2010


  On 05/25/2010 03:44 PM, Jack Lloyd wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 03:25:50PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>    
>>> Setting aside the ease of hole-punching with UDP,
>>>        
>> Is hole punching that much easier with UDP?  Does it help with the
>> problem of getting in touch with a server behind a NAT gateway?
>>      
> Somewhat easier - many common NAT implementations will, upon seeing an
> outbound UDP packet, set up a temporary forward from the originating
> port to the machine behind the NAT.
>
>    
Isn't that the idea behind this?
http://samy.pl/pwnat/

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