On 11/3/06, Tim ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au wrote:
On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 03:29 +0000, Thufir wrote:
I would, or might, need admin access to the router/firewall?
If you want to run any server that accepts connections through your firewall, you need to open ports through it, and possibly forward ports through. It depends on the system, some modem/routers don't act as a firewall, some aren't enabled, some will try to automatically route connections through (I've seen one that uses NAT, and does that for you).
That is the whole reason for STUN AFAIK. It uses a STUN server on the outside of the firewall to negotiate a path back to two peers that are behind a NAT firewall using the inherent NAT inner workings so that the peers can talk to each other directly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STUN All SIP providers and clients that I have experience with use this method for accepting calls through a NAT withtou having to administer the NAT firewall. GTalk (jingle/jabber based) also uses this method.
/Mike