Re: Application protocols and Address Translation

Patrik Fältström wrote:
> On måndag, dec 2, 2002, at 16:06 Europe/Stockholm, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>> The question is, what are the applications-specific arguments
>> against translated addresses? What are the brokenness conditions
>> caused by translated addresses (and the associated statefulness)?
> 
> FTP, SIP and DNS are three protocols which have problems. Or not really 
> SIP but anything which uses RTP and is launched by an SDP specification.

Make that any protocol that negotiates for a separate peer to peer 
connection, and passes IP addresses as part of that negotiation.

	Tony Hansen
	tony@att.com

Received on Monday, 2 December 2002 12:28:43 UTC