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2. Terminology

2. 术语

In this section we first summarize some middlebox terms. We focus hereon the two kinds of middleboxes that commonly cause problems for P2P applications.

在这一章节中，首先概要的介绍一下“代理”技术的一些术语。然后集中讨论两种造成P2P应用问题的代理机制。

Firewall

A firewall restricts communication between a private internal network and the public Internet, typically by dropping packets that are deemed unauthorized. A firewall examines but does not modify the IP address and TCP/UDP port information in packets crossing the boundary.

防火墙

防火墙限制了私网与公网的通信，它主要是将（防火墙）认为未经授权的的包丢弃，防火墙只是检验包的数据，并不修改数据包中的IP地址和TCP/UDP端口信息。

Network Address Translator (NAT)