Punching TCP Holes in Node.js

Question

I am trying to punch a TCP hole through two NATs in node.js. The problem is that I cannot figure out how to choose which local port to use the connection?

Answer 1

The socket is assigned a local port. To reuse the same port, you can connect to the client using the same socket that was used to communicate with the server. This works for you because you are punching holes in TCP. However, you yourself cannot choose a port.

Here are some test codes:

// server.js
require('net').createServer(function(c) {
    c.write(c.remotePort.toString(10));
}).listen(4434);


//client.js
var c = require('net').createConnection({host : '127.0.0.1', port : 4434});
c.on('data', function(data) {
    console.log(data.toString(), c.localPort);
    c.end();
});

c.on('end', function() {
    c.connect({host : '127.0.0.1', port : 4434});
});

Answer 2

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// server.js
var server = require('net').createServer(function (socket) {
    console.log('> Connect to this public endpoint with clientB:', socket.remoteAddress + ':' + socket.remotePort);
}).listen(4434, function (err) {
    if(err) return console.log(err);
    console.log('> (server) listening on:', server.address().address + ':' + server.address().port)
});

// clientA.js
var c = require('net').createConnection({host : 'PUBLIC_IP_OF_SERVER', port : 4434}, function () {
    console.log('> connected to public server via local endpoint:', c.localAddress + ':' + c.localPort);

    // do not end the connection, keep it open to the public server
    // and start a tcp server listening on the ip/port used to connected to server.js
    var server = require('net').createServer(function (socket) {
        console.log('> (clientA) someone connected, it\s:', socket.remoteAddress, socket.remotePort);
        socket.write("Hello there NAT traversal man, this is a message from a client behind a NAT!");
    }).listen(c.localPort, c.localAddress, function (err) {
        if(err) return console.log(err);
        console.log('> (clientA) listening on:', c.localAddress + ':' + c.localPort);
    });
});

// clientB.js
// read the server output to find the public endpoint of A:
var c = require('net').createConnection({host : 'PUBLIC_IP_OF_CLIENT_A', port : PUBLIC_PORT_OF_CLIENT_A},function () {
    console.log('> (clientB) connected to clientA!');

    c.on('data', function (data) {
        console.log(data.toString());
    });
});

, , : https://github.com/SamDecrock/node-tcp-hole-punching