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Re: PHP socket and NAT [message #177154 is a reply to message #177151] Fri, 24 February 2012 13:22 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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M. Strobel wrote:
> Am 23.02.2012 17:03, schrieb SL:
>>> No they don't, the local network will not allow it. They will have
>>> different IP addresses.
>> Sorry, folks. When I say same IP, I mean the external IP.
>>
>> I am trying to add something to a chat application; a server is involved
>> here, eg user initiates connection to a chat server (via internet), where
>> the server routes the messages (I think you gurus know what I mean).
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>
> In the case where the clients connect to the server, there is absolutely no problem
> with NAT, it is just transparent. The server responds to these connections like to
> any other. Remember: HTTP establishes a TCP connection, and here the endpoints (=
> sockets) are identified by ip-address and port number: IP address in the IP header,
> port number in the TCP header.
>
> A problem with NAT is to start a connection from the internet to a station on the LAN
> through the NAT router. Many call this problem a security feature.
>

Probably because that is exactly what it is.

All arising out of the perception that SEVERS need connections but
DESKTOPS only make them.

Plus a global shortage of IP addresses...

> /Str.
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