help with vic firewall issue

[Robert Olson]

At 01:40 PM 2/16/2004, Eric Olson wrote:

>Nope, the sending socket is created and bound (and does call connect)
>before the receive socket is created and bound.
>
>Tom suggested looking at rat, since it seems to work through the
>firewall.  -- and I don't think vic creates any more connections than rat.
>
>It looks to me like rat is listening on UDP, but I don't see any
>explicit UDP connections.  Does that mean the UDP connect() is not really
>necessary?

That is correct. You can use sendto() to specify the destination address 
for an individual message; calling connect() is a shortcut.

--bob