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How does this deal with clients behind a NAT? Do modern NATs transparently treat outgoing UDP the same way they do TCP, mapping the port numbers to allow assoc
by unwiredben 13y ago
How does this deal with clients behind a NAT? Do modern NATs transparently treat outgoing UDP the same way they do TCP, mapping the port numbers to allow associating the return UDP packets with the right client?
- msirp 13y agoYes. UDP NAT is done using timeouts due to not having a standardized connection setup/teardown sequence. UDP is used by many consumer-level applications (online gaming including on consoles, VoIP, video chat like Skype, etc.) so the lack of UDP NAT would easily be noticed by many normal users.