Re: [circle] Routers, NAT question

[darkblood]

I think it has to do with the router dropping packets from random people
that the node has never talked to before.  If the router has ssh and
python, the Circle will attempt to run a proxy on the server that makes
everything work.

I don't know if this still works, but I used it fairly consistantly about
a year ago.  (The problem being that you pretty well need a hefty UN*X
system for a router to do this.  Windoze and little hardware boxen need
not apply.)

-- Pierre
      He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool;
        and he who dares not is a slave.  -Sir William Drummond


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Matthew Wilson wrote:

> It seems like Circle doesn't work well on nodes behind routers that use
> NAT.  Is this because the node is only aware of the internal (typically
> 192.168.X.X) IP address, and not the router's external interface?
> 
> Would it be possible to set up port forwarding on the router, and
> then to pass to the Circle client as an option the external IP address?