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I thought WebRTC was the coolest thing since sliced bread until I ran into the whole TURN and STUN thing. I feel catfished.
by haroldegibbons 6y ago
I thought WebRTC was the coolest thing since sliced bread until I ran into the whole TURN and STUN thing. I feel catfished.
- rambojazz 6y agoThose are not specific to WebRTC though. They are needed protocols if you want a chance to traverse NATs. They're used by WebRTC and other VOIP stacks too.
- pmlnr 6y agoYep, same here. Especially when one takes a step back, loads a h323 softphone that, unlike browsers on linux, uses hw encode/decode, and suddenly my laptop doesn't want to fry itself.
- daffy 6y agoWhat are TURN and STUN?
- SamWhited 6y agoWays for punching through NAT. STUN lets you discover NAT addresses and the like to try and establish a connection with a port on the WAN IP, or some other connection mechanism. TURN is effectively a proxy that can be used by both sides to establish a connection through NAT.