natman-api

node-natman-api

node-natman-api is a simple api wrapper for the npm package natman by Marak. All props should go to him, I just made it reusable as an API.

I ran into a problem working on a project of mine: I wanted the user to be able to port forward without going into their router. This proved to be more difficult than I had thought, since that most PMP or UPNP packages were either crappy or based on native modules that would make compiling with NW.js or Electron really hard. So I came across natman a cli utility that actually worked and had a strong codebase. I just removed the cli bit and made it into an API. I also removed netroute as it would require building of native modules. network has been used instead.

Installation

npm install natman-api  

Usage

var natman = require('natman-api');
 
var privatePort = 8080; //The port on your machine that you want to forward
var publicPort = 80 //The port you want to open to the rest of the world.
 
natman(privatePort, publicPort);

License

Marak's repo didn't specify any LICENSE but his npm package did, so this repo includes a LICENSE attributed to him.