Traversing X11 clients behind NAT (or X11 end-to-end connectivity)
Dan Kegel
dank at kegel.com
Sun Apr 13 14:30:24 PDT 2008
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek
<Juliusz.Chroboczek at pps.jussieu.fr> wrote:
> If you control both the client and the server, which is usually the
> case with X11, it is trivial to give a Teredo address to both and
> enjoy NAT-free end-to-end communication:
>
> http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/ipv6-connectivity.html
>
> Think of Teredo as a NAT traversal technology. Instead of
> implementing NAT traversal in every application, you implement it
> once, at the network layer, and have all applications assume
> end-to-end connectivity.
For the curious: see also http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5128
for a survey of NAT traversal methods, including (I think) the one
used by Teredo.
- Dan
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