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From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
To: Rostislav Belotserkovski <rost.bel@gmail.com>
Cc: WireGuard mailing list <wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com>
Subject: Re: do a client behind NAT needs to define listening port?
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 14:35:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHmME9qx9P4dwgkaiODQVdoh8X+c_Lyvp+QL95Gqntn+SPvTcA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKJBWRckpjWWKcUZDAtvFoG87hGG9wcKBbvY_JVeHXoptZUYaw@mail.gmail.com>

If you're the client, you're already connecting _up_ to a server,
which means ordinary stateful NAT takes care of that.

Comparison: do you manually specify a source port when making an
outgoing HTTP connection?

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-30 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-30 11:43 Rostislav Belotserkovski
2017-04-30 12:07 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-04-30 12:33   ` Rostislav Belotserkovski
2017-04-30 12:35     ` Jason A. Donenfeld [this message]
2017-04-30 14:53       ` Rostislav Belotserkovski
2017-04-30 14:54         ` Jason A. Donenfeld

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