SIMCO, Simple Middlebox Configuration
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Description:

Protocol suite: TCP/IP.
Protocol type:Application layer protocol.
Ports:7626 (TCP).
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The SIMCO protocol is used to control firewalls and NATs. SIMCO allows applications to communicate with middleboxes on the datagram path in order to request a dynamic configuration at the middlebox that enables datagram streams to pass the middlebox. Applications can request pinholes at firewalls and address bindings at NATs.

MAC header IP header TCP header SIMCO header Data :::

Glossary:

middlebox.
A device on the datagram path between the source and destination that performs functions besides IP routing.

RFCs:

[RFC 4540] NEC's Simple Middlebox Configuration (SIMCO) Protocol Version 3.0.

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