[p2p-hackers] Error correcting codes to prevent failurein BitTorrent like systems?

[Saikat Guha]

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 16:37 +0800, Enzo Michelangeli wrote:
>    Some NATs were rumored to exist that looked in arbitrary packets for
>    either the NATs' external IP address or for the internal host IP
>    address - either in binary or dotted decimal form - and rewrote it to
>    something else.  [...]
> 
> ...but I can testify that a Sercom IP706ST once in my possession did
> perform such "blind payload patch" for packets sent to the DMZ host.
> Needless to say, it's been demoted to paperweight :-)


FWIW, we looked for such behavior in NATs w.r.t TCP packets
(http://nutss.net/stunt-results.php). We couldn't find any evidence of
TCP data mangling in the 120 or so NATs that we tested. Would it be
possible to run the STUNT NAT test from behind your paperweight? :-D

cheers,
-- 
Saikat
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