[p2p-hackers] Re: [mnet-devel] desiderata and open issues in ent (fwd from [email protected])

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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:35:26 -0400
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Subject: [p2p-hackers] Re: [mnet-devel] desiderata and open issues in ent
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Reply-To: "Peer-to-peer development." <[email protected]>

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 09:40:59AM -0400, Zooko wrote:
> 2.  It should handle the reality that a large fraction (around half) of the 
> nodes are behind NAT or firewalls and can't accept incoming connections.  If 
> two nodes are both restricted like that then they cannot be peers of one 
> another in the ent graph.

Surveying LinkSys home gateway products this morning I see that all of them
support UPnP.  I suspect that most new home networks are being setup with
hardward like this that supports UPnP, so maybe we'll get lucky and that 50%
number will go down.

I also have posted code [1] that uses the python COM support to forward a port
to a NAT'ed computer (my work computer for example.).  It's ugly and
blocking but I plan on adding to Mnet this weekend.

This is a great doc, btw, of what needs to be tackled.

icepick

1 - http://icepick.info/2003/09/17/upnp_example.py
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