Re: Please explain port forwarding..

From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 05/20/04

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    Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 00:40:29 +0000 (UTC)

    "Paul H" <nospam@nospam.com> writes:

    ]A common reason for a home user to mess with port forwarding is for gaming.
    ]Given what I now understand, why should a gamer have to do this? I can
    ]understand why exchange or SQL server would need port forwarding but why
    ]would a game need this just for multiplayer purposes, especially if he is
    ]**not ** running a server just a workstation and wants to join in the online
    ]fun?

    Because other gamers may send him packets "out of the blue"-- ie without
    him having previously intiated a particular intereaction with that
    particualar machine.

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