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by ghosty141
44 days ago
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What I don't get is, this makes it sound like applications can have peer to peer connections "on their own" but where does this actually work. If I have control over the whole device I might as well use a vpn, if I don't how do I ensure the firewall, network, etc. are all set up to allow the traffic necessary? |
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The iroh endpoint will determine its location in the world by probing the configured relays using QAD (similar to STUN). It will then choose a home relay and establish a https connection to it.
When another iroh endpoint wants to talk they first briefly talk via that relay, then hole punch and establish a direct connection.
All of this happens in the background without the user even noticing. It’s also very lightweight - runs on an embedded computer with 2 megabytes of RAM.