FMS: NAT and Firewall

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October 12, 2010
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I've run into one roadblock after another with Cirrus (Stratus) - basically, even the Adobe Videophone example refuses to work in the 'real world' where there's a mix of NAT and firewall configurations outside the developer's control. (http://forums.adobe.com/message/1064983#1064983 and thread at http://forums.adobe.com/thread/736422?tstart=0)

My question is whether Flash Media Server 4 has the same sort of issues? We don't want to pay up to install and run our own FMS only to discover that we won't be able to provide a P2P service to our end users because they're scattered around the Internet with a mix of mobile devices and computers lying behind NAT and firewall devices that we can't predict.

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SE_0208

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Check this doc page: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flashmediaserver/devguide/WSa4cb07693d123884520b86f312a354ba36d-7ff5.html - see if this helps you

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FithleeAuthor

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Thanks for the response: that is indeed a helpful article and will move us further along the road.

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Michael Thornburgh

Adobe Employee

FMS4 and Cirrus should behave identically as far as facilitating P2P communications on the open Internet.

as the referenced article describes, with some combinations of NATs and firewalls, P2P communication is impossible. RTMFP tries really hard to establish connections in the cases where direct communication is possible, but will not function in cases where direct communication is not possible.

we believe direct communications should be possible for the majority of Internet users, but recognize that it won't be possible for 100% of users.

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