[e2e] Detecting middle boxes

Melinda Shore mshore at cisco.com
Tue Feb 12 08:47:18 PST 2002


At 08:35 AM 2/12/02 -0800, Christian Huitema wrote:
>Uh, what exactly is not robust here? We are considering a "detection"
>system, not a "correction". 

Detecting that you are behind a NAT by using a reflector,
as STUN does, will not reliably tell you whether or not you
are behind a NAT with respect to a particular endpoint if
the network is multihomed.

Melinda




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