TCP hole punching for Bitcoin nodes behind home NATs?

Not sure how relevant, but one thing I’ll add is that NATs with EIM may still have “Address and Port-Dependent Filtering” (APF). Meaning that EIM:APF ↔ APM:APF won’t work.

Here’s a great piece on how the various combinations of mapping+filtering affect NAT traversability: How NATs Work, Part II: NAT types and STUN

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