How NAT traversal works* can theoretically exist, but don't show up in the wild Once broken down like this, we can see that cone-ness isn’t terribly useful to us. The major distinction we care about is Symmetric versus anything else — in other words, we care about whether a NAT device is EIM or EDM. While it’s neat to know exactly how your firewall behaves, we don’t care from the point of view of writing NAT traversal c
