[tor-bugs] #4959 [Tor Relay]: Discuss shipping and enabling tor-fw-helper by default

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#4959: Discuss shipping and enabling tor-fw-helper by default
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 Reporter:  karsten    |          Owner:  ioerror         
     Type:  task       |         Status:  new             
 Priority:  normal     |      Milestone:  Tor: unspecified
Component:  Tor Relay  |        Version:                  
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 We have a
 [https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/SponsorF/Year2
 sponsor F] deliverable for either July or November 2012 to "investigate
 NAT piercing approaches for relays and bridges."

 Jake says that, in theory, we need to ship tor-fw-helper and actually
 enable it.  That will fix 90% of the NAT issues that we have right away.
 It's been merged for a year but we're still not shipping it and enabling
 it by default.  Steven just finished the Windows port of tor-fw-helper.

 Does that mean we can now ship and enable it on all platforms in the next
 major Tor release, which is probably going to be 0.2.4.x?

 If not, what's left to do?  Or is it a bad idea for some reason?

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