Eliot,
On Wed, 2001.02.14, Eliot Lear wrote:
With all the discussion of Napster and so-called "peer to peer" networking,
I think NATs are going to become far more visible to users as these
applications grow in popularity. Today, you can use something like Gnutella
if at least one party is not behind a NAT.
With the addressless overlay architecture, you don't need any party to be
outside the firewalls. So the premise is incorrect. I'm keeping relatively
quiet because I'm busy implementing a prototype system myself, and hope to
demo it within this semester (honto ni) :-)
(Please read my soon-to-be-published revised paper, which Carpenter says
is much clearer than my I-D, temporarily housed at
http://affine.watson.ibm.com/tmp/ - see Annals
- unlike the Triad, this one's been peer-reviewed and published twice,
plus almost all IP protocols would work, not just TCP.)
regards,
prasad.