Sebastian Kiesel *, Michael Scharf Institute of Communication Networks and Computer Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 47, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany Received 15 September 2006; accepted 20 November 2006 Available online 1 February
This memo documents the methods used by the current peer-to-peer (P2P) applications to communicate in the presence of middleboxes such as firewalls and network address translators (NAT). In addition, the memo suggests guidelines to application desig
