Simple Traversal Underneath NAT (STUN)
Simple Traversal Underneath NATs (STUN) is a lightweight protocol that serves as a tool for application protocols in dealing with NAT traversal.
History
STUN was originally an acronym for Simple Traversal of UDP Through NAT. It was a simple client/server protocol with two usages: Finding the binding IP address and port in a NAT, and discovering the NAT behavior. This was published as RFC 3489. After the publication of RFC 3489, the work restarted to fix the problems, and the NAT behavior discovery usage was removed. Also TURN was designed as a STUN extension to create a packet relay. There was some deployments in the field of implementations based on this draft (draft-ietf-rfc3489bis-02 and draft-rosenberg-midcom-turn-08) After this, the development of STUN was essentially rebooted, and TURN became a STUN usage. The current draft of STUN (draft-ietf-behave-rfc3489bis-05) is in WGLC in the Behave WG of the IETF, and the relay usage (formerly known as TURN) will be soon in WGLC.
Protocol dependencies
- UDP/TCP/TLS: Typically, STUN uses UDP, TCP or TLS as its transport protocol. The well known UDP/TCP port for STUN traffic is 3478. There is no well known port for TLS.
Example traffic
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Wireshark
The STUN dissector is fully functional.
Preference Settings
There is no preference setting for the STUN dissector.
Example capture file
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Display Filter
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Capture Filter
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External links
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RFC 3489 STUN - Simple Traversal of User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Through Network Address Translators (NATs) - the first version of STUN.
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rfc3489bis-05 Simple Traversal Underneath Network Address Translators (NAT) (STUN) - The current draft
Discussion
Imported from https://wiki.wireshark.org/STUN on 2020-08-11 23:26:00 UTC