Re: How BitTorrent deals with people behind NAT?

> "Behind NAT without ports forwarded" == you will only be able to
> initiate connections to those that can recieve them (== those not 
behind
> NAT or those behind NAT with ports forwarded)
> 
> In either case once the connection is established both will be able 
to
> upload to the other.  So it's not a question of being able to 
upload,
> it's question of who you are able to connect to, and forwarding 
ports
> makes you much more connectable.
> 
> Brian

Brian,

I have a question for clients behind NAT without port forwarding 
enabled: when such client requests a file piece from a peer, it opens 
a UDP socket to that peer.  If that peer wants to download another 
file piece from this client, would BitTorrent use the same UDP socket 
to do the uploading and downloading?

The reason for asking is, if the client doesn't have port forwarding, 
I think there is no peers can initiate any connection to that 
client.  If this is true, then the only way that client can upload is 
because other peers have to use the same UDP socket to do upload and 
download.  Is this correct?

Thanks
Mingjun





 
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