Universal Plug and Play support =============================== I suggest that we need UP&P support. The main caveats are that it is not usable on an untrusted LAN, so we need to ask the user, and that we may not easily be able to distinguish between a local trusted LAN and an ISP's LAN. It is also reported that UP&P works only around 50% of the time when it is detected.
However: - It would significantly improve connection reliability. If for example all your peers are german and in germany all domestic IPs change every 24 hours, if you are down for 24 hours you are lost for good. - Right now good connectivity relies on getting a few geek nodes - nodes that are directly connected or port forwarded. UP&P would increase the proportion of such nodes dramatically. - It would allow for all sorts of bootstrapping protocols. One-time references are the tip of the iceberg: Anything that involves giving your details well in advance of the actual connection attempt will be greatly helped by UP&P support. - It would (mostly) eliminate the need to rely on centralised STUN servers. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20070306/7e7a19f3/attachment.pgp>
