proposal: TCP rendevous

[Julian Elischer]

Brian Candler wrote:

>On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 10:18:49PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
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>>In this world of P2P apps it would be neat to have a way that two P2P apps
>>could attach to each other even though each is through a firewall. Most 
>>firewalls only allow
>>"outgoing" connections.
>>
>>It would of course be possible via a 3rd party relaying but that is 
>>inneffieient and the throughput
>>would be limited by throughput limits on the 3rd party link.
>>
>>It must be possible, with the connivance of a 3rd party both parties 
>>could be able
>>to make suitable 'OUTGOING' connections.
>>The 3rd party would spoof needed packets using information supplied
>>by the two parties.
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>See this: http://samy.pl/chownat/
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>(Haven't tried it myself, but came across it on Freshmeat a while ago. I
>imagine it must rely on the NAT firewalls not changing the source UDP port
>unless they have to)
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yes, which means it might unexpectedly fail.