Natblaster: Establishing TCP Connections Between Hosts Behind NATs

Welcome to the Natblaster website. This website is dedicated to the proof-of-concept implementation, and related resources, for some of the techniques outlined in the paper:

NATBLASTER: Establishing TCP Connections Between Hosts Behind NATs [dvi] [ps] [pdf] [bib] In ACM SIGCOMM Asia Worksop, 2005 by A. Biggadike, D. Ferullo, G. Wilson and A. Perrig

The source code is available

The doxygen documentation is available

Diagrams that might be found useful to understand the code are available:

• A diagram that outlines the sequence of messages sent between a peer and the 3rd party in the code
• A diagram that outlines the control flow of the peer as a connection is created
• A diagram that outlines the control flow of the 3rd party as a connection is created

The ACM SIGCOMM Asia Presentation is available

Last updated on March 30, 2005