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> You can try to do hacks like NAT (like you probably do in your home IPv4 network, which breaks/stops any peer-2-peer protocol). That’s demonstrably untrue. S
by djrogers 9y ago
> You can try to do hacks like NAT (like you probably do in your home IPv4 network, which breaks/stops any peer-2-peer protocol).
That’s demonstrably untrue. Sure p2p protocols and NAT devices need to account for NAT, but to imply that they’re impossible to use with NAT is just silly. Many p2p protocols work via NAT all the time...
- okket 9y agoSure, you can add another layer of hacks like UPnP or NAT-PMP to work around the breakage a bit. Or try to use side effects like NAT boxes waiting UDP responses when they forward such a packet. And you can spend the rest of day telling yourself this is totally fine, because it works most of the times. Or could step back and see that this a terminally ill protocol on life support.