On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:20:25 -0500, Michael Wiktowy wrote: [...] > That is the whole reason for STUN AFAIK. It uses a STUN server on the > outside of the firewall to negotiate a path back to two peers that are > behind a NAT firewall using the inherent NAT inner workings so that > the peers can talk to each other directly. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STUN > All SIP providers and clients that I have experience with use this > method for accepting calls through a NAT withtou having to administer > the NAT firewall. GTalk (jingle/jabber based) also uses this method. > > /Mike Thanks for making the wikipedia entry easier to digest :) I don't mind buying the hardware and monkeying around with it to get things to work, but I don't want to waste my time. Can I somehow simulate STUN? Some sort of advanced ping? thanks, Thufir
