>TCP will passthrough NAT like you are requesting. This is how HTTP and
>SMTP works.

Didn't really get this part.. will my idea work or do I have to switch to
UDP? (UDP is blocked by many providers that's why ICQ stopped using in in
version 99.)



-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Rutledge [mailto:kevin at in dash genius dot com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:26 PM
To: Alex M
Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] Finding right open port for NAT-Punch

If you initiate a TCP connection, it's bi-directional.  If you initiate
a UDP connection, it's uni-directional.

TCP will passthrough NAT like you are requesting. This is how HTTP and
SMTP works.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex M [mailto:radiussupport at lrcommunications dot net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 3:44 PM
> To: Monowall Support List
> Subject: [m0n0wall] Finding right open port for NAT-Punch
> Importance: Low
> 
> Ok this one is a little bit off topic, but no one else can 
> give me clear
> hint. 
> 
> I'm writing a VB.net 2005 that supposes to send string to 
> network pc over
> the internet. In most cases PCs are behind NAT box, so my app 
> should be able
> to bypass router and reach destination PC. That is not 
> possible because
> router doesn't know where to forward request so it eats the 
> package. In
> order to work around that thing I can use server to whom 
> client will send
> request and because client behind NAT box initiated the 
> connection somewhere
> the router should have assigned the port for that client to 
> communicate with
> outside network so if we send socket back to that port it 
> should reach the
> client that initiated the connection. 
> 
>  
> 
> I did an app based on those assumptions but never got able to 
> bypass mono
> working as nat. Moreover it seams that I have different port numbers
> detected on the same socket.
> 
>  
> 
> For example Im sending socket from laptop that is behind NAT 
> to a Desktop
> which is working as the server and is located on a wan 
> interface of mono.
> The socket is obviously delivered since there is no barrier, 
> but here is
> interesting observation.
> 
>  
> 
> Laptop says it's talking to the NAT on port 1438 (Local 
> Endpoint Port),
> while desktop says it got the socket from port 53010 (Remote 
> End Point Port)
> 
> My app on laptop is being set automatically to listen to 
> Local Endpoint Port
> (1438 in this case), but when I send the packet from Desktop 
> to the mono WAN
> address on that port it gets nowhere. I even tried that 53010 
> port but no
> luck.   
> 
>  
> 
> Im a bit lost now so maybe some one had any experience in 
> doing this and has
> VB sample code, or at leas can some one tell how ports are 
> signed to the
> sockets on mono and in general, and why cant I go through 
> with example I
> described?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> And sorry for off topic post.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>