Re: [BEHAVE] (no subject)

[ivan c <[e-mail]>]

Hi Dan,

On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:21:50 -0700, Dan Wing <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> It is impossible to preserve TCP ports on a large or busy NAT (or a NAT
> that is both large and busy)
> 

Yes, it's impossible (regardless of the NAT's size). Home NATs usually
fall back on EDM in collision cases. This doesn't bother the TCP Hole
Punching protocol.


> It is also impossible to preserve TCP ports with A+P-related IPv4
address
> sharing mechanisms. 
> 

Yes, such NATs map the ports topology of the host to a coarser topology
(less available ports), and although easy to implement it isn't too
satisfying. A NAT should be as transparent as possible by trying to mimic
the host's behavior and its use of ports. It's nicer to leave the host
topology intact and superpose usages of each subscriber instead. Squeezing
the number of available ports is expected to break quite a few things,
although not in major ways. This is not really an issue in the context of
p2p applications, as they are used to deal with a variety of corner cases
and weirder NATs behaviors.



-- 
_Ivan Chollet_