[Fedora-nightlife-list] NAT traversal

[Matthew Farrellee]

Renato Figueiredo wrote:
> It's great to see this project getting off the ground!
> 
> Our group is very interested in this idea. We have been working with
> wide-area VM appliance Condor pools for a couple of years and have developed
> a peer-to-peer virtual network (IP-over-P2P, or IPOP) that supports
> decentralized NAT traversal with techniques including hole-punching and
> proxying. We've found this to be very useful to facilitate the deployment of
> ad-hoc wide-area Condor pools/flocks where nodes are increasingly behind
> NATs. The IPOP code is also open source and user level (though it currently
> uses a tap device), so I thought this would be of interest to the list. Here
> are some pointers for more information (and software):
> 
> http://grid-appliance.org
> http://ipop-project.org
> 
> We're starting a collaboration with the Condor group on a particular
> application of this virtual infrastructure for computer architecture
> simulation (http://archer-project.org); hopefully sharing our experience
> with this system can benefit nightlife and vice-versa.
> 
> Bests,
> --rf

Renato,

IPOP is definitely something that could be of use to the Nightlife 
project. Letting NAT'd execution nodes join the network is currently an 
issue. As Nightlife grows it could also become a good testbed for IPOP.

Have you considered packaging IPOP in Fedora?

Best,


matt