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by ultrahax 1358 days ago
I work on something that requires a reasonably cooperative NAT and unmolested real-time UDP traffic. I've seen varied failure-modes from corporate firewalls over the years - from simple NAT table overflow causing rapid source port switching, to the firewall appliance downloading an update and deciding UDP packets of a certain size ( and ONLY of a certain size.. ) were bittorrent and hence were to be blackholed. That was an interesting one to track down. I've also seen it block diagnostic GETs to varied bits of cloud infra, due to someone at some point in the distant past hosting porn on that particular IP. Not to mention just good old strict NATs..