Google Talk and NAT issue ?

fbsd_user fbsd_user at a1poweruser.com
Wed Mar 22 14:33:39 UTC 2006


Just what do you mean by punching a hole in the
firewall without the firewalls knowledge?

The firewall is designed to stop just such a thing.

Please explain your Statement.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Andrew
Pantyukhin
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 8:35 AM
To: Norberto Meijome
Cc: Yuan Jue; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Google Talk and NAT issue ?


On 3/22/06, Norberto Meijome <freebsd at meijome.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:54:14 +0800
> Yuan Jue <yuanjue02 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What kind of new technology Google use to
> > overcome a NAT issue?
>
> Hi there, no idea if you figured this out yet.
> I dont use (any version of ) google talk (skype works just great
:) ),
> so these are only suggestions.
>
> Windows version may be using uPNP to open up your firewall.

...or punching holes in stateful firewalls. I think that's what
skype does.
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