On 6/13/06, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2006/06/13 22:07, Nick Guenther wrote: > What is the prefered method for NAT-traversal these days? The options > I know are: > UPnP
I suppose this one doesn't work unless the protocol bends well to it, and both ends support it too, which means running clunky XML and HTTP code.....
> a proxy > having the in-kernel NAT code do the work itself Look at how /usr/sbin/ftp-proxy works with anchors - it's a nice hybrid, keeping L7 work out of the kernel, and bulk-packet-shifting out of userland.
Ah, thank you! That makes for a lot of reading up to do. Skimming the code it seems that there's a lot of framework-code shoved in alongside the proxying, is that right? -Nick
