On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 03:20:25PM -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Thursday, February 03, 2011 02:28:32 pm valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > > The only reason FTP works through a NAT is because the NAT has already > > been hacked up to further mangle the data stream to make up for the > > mangling it does. > > FTP is a in essence a peer-to-peer protocol, as both ends initiate TCP > streams. I know that's nitpicking, but it is true.
So is SMTP, by the same token. Aptly demonstrating why the term "P2P" is so mind-alteringly stupid. - Matt
