Re: peer to peer messaging

Tim Ward wrote:

> > Start with 2 machines on the same subnet. Get your services working and
> > then work your way out to dealing with NAT issues.
>
> Coo! That's clever! Then when you find that your system architecture
> cannot be extended to work across NAT boxes you just go to your boss
> and/or client and tell them that you've wasted [...]

Since NAT is supposed to be transparent to both ends of the network connection,
it isn't obvious to me what the potential showstoppers might be ?

(Yes I do know that it's possible to [mis?-]design protocols so that they
require active cooperation from the NAT, but does anyone actually design such
protocols these days ?)

-- chirs


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