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I'm curious how this will deal with carrier grade firewalls and NATs. I can't run torrent client on my phone for this reason and I have hard time seeing how any

by ugjka 3y ago

I'm curious how this will deal with carrier grade firewalls and NATs. I can't run torrent client on my phone for this reason and I have hard time seeing how anything P2P is going to work on user hostile ISPs

quaintdev 3y ago
Probably the way syncthing deals with NAT. I actually suggested Syncthing team to implement something like this few months back but they were not interested.
- raybb 3y ago
  Do you gave a link to the suggestion? (If it's public)
  - quaintdev 3y ago
    It's buried in closed issues of Syncthing. This was quite some time back maybe over a year ago.
  - remram 3y ago
    https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/8423 https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/8423
    - quaintdev 3y ago
      This. Thank you.
weld 3y ago
It can use another node that it knows about for hole punching. Some info here: https://veilid.com/framework/networking/ https://veilid.com/framework/networking/