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@inproceedings{citeulike:991657, abstract = {Network Address Translation (NAT) causes well-known difficulties for peer-to-peer (P2P) communication, since the peers involved may not be reachable at any globally valid IP address. Several NAT traversal techniques are known, but their documentation is slim, and data about their robustness or relative merits is slimmer. This paper documents and analyzes one of the simplest but most robust and practical NAT traversal techniques, commonly known as \"hole punching.\" Hole punching is moderately...}, author = {Ford, Bryan and Kegel, Dan and Srisuresh, Pyda}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2005 USENIX Technical Conference}, citeulike-article-id = {991657}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.59.6799}, keywords = {address, communication, contentifier, nat, network, p2p, peer, peer-to-peer, punch-hole, tcp, translator, traverse, udp}, posted-at = {2009-07-02 23:14:48}, priority = {2}, title = {Peer-to-Peer Communication Across Network Address Translators}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.59.6799}, year = {2005} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:991657 L3 - citeulike-article-id:991657 N2 - Network Address Translation (NAT) causes well-known difficulties for peer-to-peer (P2P) communication, since the peers involved may not be reachable at any globally valid IP address. Several NAT traversal techniques are known, but their documentation is slim, and data about their robustness or relative merits is slimmer. This paper documents and analyzes one of the simplest but most robust and practical NAT traversal techniques, commonly known as "hole punching." Hole punching is moderately... TI - Peer-to-Peer Communication Across Network Address Translators T2 - Proceedings of the 2005 USENIX Technical Conference KW - address KW - communication KW - contentifier KW - nat KW - network KW - p2p KW - peer KW - peer-to-peer KW - punch-hole KW - tcp KW - translator KW - traverse KW - udp AU - Ford, Bryan AU - Kegel, Dan AU - Srisuresh, Pyda PY - 2005/// UR - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.59.6799 ER -