Subject: Re: Socket/protocol/packet/etc ramblings
From: Tommi Leino (namhas@majik.netti.fi)
Date: Thu Sep 02 1999 - 14:53:21 EEST
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Jari P Saukkonen wrote: > On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Tommi Leino wrote: > > > But can UDP survive through masquerading firewalls? And it is not > > so rare to block all UDP ports anyways... Otherwise this would > > indeed work. > > We can make a small protocol abstraction layer (PAL ;) that can use either > TCP or UDP and let the user select the protocol. Then the networking code > doesn't need to care about protocols, we can use the same approach with > both protocols. TCP just has more overhead in the protocol-level. It is confirmed. UDP doesn't work through ipmasq unless we port forward it. That kinda sucks, not many would benefit of it then anyways. -- Tommi Leino / Majik 3D project namhas@majik.netti.fi http://majik.netti.fi
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