Mass Adoption of NATs: Survey and experiments on carrier-grade NATs · HackerPapers discussions

Mass Adoption of NATs: Survey and experiments on carrier-grade NATs — mentioned by synctext

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:35:12 GMT

Interesting project, towards a decentralized Internet! The heavy lifting is done in this function, pairing. You link your personal devices together, solid idea [0]. This Flipflop project relies on the Iroh library for NAT/Firewall puncturing, external address discovery and overlay networking. Connecting two 5G devices, without a coordinating central server is possible, but very hard. Iroh simply relies on a server which you could self-host. Cool stuff, we stress tested it a while ago and it somewhat worked. NAT connectivity is unsolved. My university lab conducted one of the bigger puncturing…

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Mass Adoption of NATs: Survey and experiments on carrier-grade NATs — HN submission

Fri, 16 Feb 2024 13:26:50 GMT

Mass Adoption of NATs: Survey and experiments on carrier-grade NATs (2023) [pdf]

2 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.

Mass Adoption of NATs: Survey and experiments on carrier-grade NATs — mentioned by synctext

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 09:02:41 GMT

> needs to be some servers available to facilitate the holepunching Not needed. Other phones can help you determine connectable ports. You can create a phone-to-phone overlay and even puncture carrier-grade NATs. See our birthday paradox attack and initial dozen SIM cards measurements: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04658 Older university project, similar to Holepunch with more dev docs: github.com/Tribler/trustchain-superapp/

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