Firewalls and NATs (Windows Embedded CE 6.0)
1/6/2010
RTC client applications can encounter a Network Address Translator (NAT) or a firewall in the call path.
Firewalls and NATs are applications placed on the gateway to the Internet and protect devices on an internal network:
- A NAT maps one or more internal devices using internal IP addresses to a single external IP address.
- A firewall blocks certain kinds of incoming traffic.
- As of Windows CE, RTC 1.5 removed support for UPnP-based NATs. Instead, it enhanced its port manager APIs and also added support for symmetric UDP/TCP for better traversal of NATs.
In This Section
- NAT Address Mapping
Provides procedures to follow when an application is behind a NAT.