Re: UPnP, NATs, and P2P

--- In [email protected], Justin Cormack <justin@s...> wrote:

> Reading the docs, I see it basically works in those situations under
> which STUN works ie sometimes, mostly if you have a really dumb NAT
> box (not a Unix machine).
> 
Some years ago (when the mechanism was still known as shipworm) I read
the whole specs
(http://www.rfc-editor.org/cgi-bin/iddoctype.pl?letsgo=draft-huitema-v6ops-teredo-04),
and they claimed to work with most NATs - never tested anyway to see
if it's true ;-)

> Also if you want to talk to real IPv6 hosts all traffic has to pass
through
> a server. (just using it for NAT traversal you can talk directly if it 
> works at all - no one has decided to procide open NAT relay servers). I
> suspect that this part of the infrastructure wont last long unless core
> ipv6 routers decide to support it.
> 
Definitely yes (just like 6to4) - of course this is a sort of bandaid,
as long as native IPv6 is not so widespread: I don't think it is
expected to scale very well if it should be used by too many users...

> Who is providing the servers?
> 
For example Microsoft themselves, or Consulintel:
6to4.autotrans.consulintel.com
teredo.autotrans.consulintel.com
(see http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01819.html)

Cheers,
LF





 
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