Re: [tcpm] possible NAT support for TCP-AO

Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU> Mon, 27 July 2009 16:17 UTC

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Eric Rescorla wrote:
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> So I'm going to jump in right here: it's not in general practical
> to know whether you are behind a NAT. That's why the BEHAVE 
> NAT discovery document is going to Experimental.

You're talking about NAT discovery; this mod doesn't talk about how you
figure that out, just how to support it if you do know it.

You can trivially know it in a key distro protocol if you send your
adr/port in the payload, so that the endpoint can see if it matches what
is on the outside. Granted that won't work in a backward-compatible way
(e.g., for BEHAVE), but key distro protocols don't have that limitation.

Joe
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