Subject: Re: Tunneling question.
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/24/2002 12:07:37
>> Well, since A is behind NAT, B can't reach it, but A can reach B
>> without a problem.
>
>Hum, it's a bit harder then, and you won't be able to use gif.
>You'll need to have A establish a TCP connection with B, and have your tunnel
>run on top of that (with ppp for example).

doing tcp inside tcp is usually a bad idea.  are there any user-space
tunneling alternatives that use udp?  udp can (usually) pass in and
out of nat devices perfectly well, even if the timers are usually a
little shorter.

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