Thursday, February 06, 2003

How to count NATted boxen An AT&T researcher has presented a paper detailing a technique for counting the number of hosts behind a NAT box (a router that shares a single IP address among multiple machines). Very interesting stuff -- there's a lot of work being done in P2Pland on traversing NATs and allowing machines wiht "private" IP addresses to participate as full-fledged Internet hosts. 644k PDF linkDiscuss (via /.) [Boing Boing] 7:52:30 AM