On this week’s Security Now! Leo and Steve discuss the topic of NAT traversal, essentially the method in which your home router manages internet traffic, filters out back packets and helps protect you, and the trouble that NAT routers present to peer-to-peer networks, and how third party servers can help routers get packets to each other. If you have a router at home and would like to know more about how it works, or if you’re thinking about purchasing one, this is the episode for you.
Security Now! Episode 42 // June 1, 2006
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