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Comment by ricardobeat

12 years ago

Isn't this called "NAT punching", and generally used by games and other sw to establish peer-to-peer connections?

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DennisP  12 years ago

That's usually UDP. With this method, you "get all of the utility [TCP] provides without trying to reproduce it over UDP."

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