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Comment by lxgr

13 hours ago

To GPs point, though, most of these will unfortunately be dropped by most middleboxes for various reasons.

Behind a NA(P)T, you can obviously only use those protocols that the translator knows how to remap ports for.

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Hikikomori  12 hours ago

Can also do 1:1 NAT for IP protocols like ipsec, or your own protocol.

  • lxgr  4 hours ago

    Yes, but who else does? Network effects are important in a network.

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