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Yes, one huge challenge of P2P over the internet is piercing the NAT veil of ignorance. WebRTC hides this complexity, but I found it highly informative to read
by e1g 6y ago
Yes, one huge challenge of P2P over the internet is piercing the NAT veil of ignorance. WebRTC hides this complexity, but I found it highly informative to read about how NAT traversal works even if I'll never touch this mess in my line of work -> https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/ https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/
- car 6y agoReliable NAT traversal is what propelled Skype to fame and billions back in the day, and was later codified by the VoIP folks at the IETF into STUN/ICE and TURN. WebRTC is basically a VoIP client with JS API built into the browser.