[Nottingham] Easy network programming

Martin martin at ml1.co.uk
Fri May 11 19:02:37 BST 2007


Michael Simms wrote:
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> 
> NAT traversal mentioned earlier is different. Its whole advantage is you
> don't have to go poking around with firewalls, it does it all for you.
> However it doesn't work for TCP (TCP packets just can't be handled like
> this AFAIK), but for UDP, it works by the server opening a port and
> sending a communication to a third party who has an open port...

Is that the "UPNP" part?

Thanks for the description,

Cheers,
Martin

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