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> I can't see how the post you linked actually does the NAT traversal... It assumes full-cone NAT - you punch a hole once by sending a packet to a third party,
by quantumofalpha 6y ago
> I can't see how the post you linked actually does the NAT traversal...
It assumes full-cone NAT - you punch a hole once by sending a packet to a third party, like a stun server which will along the way tell you your external ip:port, and then a full-cone NAT would forward packets coming to that ip:port back to you, regardless of the source.
- mbreese 6y agoAhh. Thank you... that makes sense. I always thought NAT was destination/port specific. It seems like this would be a fairly large assumption to make.