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[Max Mertens <max.mail@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Vicente,

On 20.05.2015 10:28, Vicente Gonzalez wrote:
> Yes, the splitter works like a STUN server. When a peer wants to join
> the team, the splitter sends to the new peer the list of peers of the
> team. But notice that this list will be useful, only of the peers are
> not behind symmetric NATs, because the public port that the splitter
> sees of a symmetric NAT-ed peer will be different of the public port
> that the incomming peer will see of the a symmetric NAT-ed peer.
Great, thanks for the explanation. Well yes, in case of a symmetric NAT
the only possibility seems to be port prediction by several successive
STUN/splitter accesses (though chownat claims to work without such
techniques; let's see).

> Best,
> Vi.
Regards,
Max

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