[tahoe-dev] uTP (low extra delay transport)

[Jack Lloyd]

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 03:25:50PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > Setting aside the ease of hole-punching with UDP,
> 
> Is hole punching that much easier with UDP?  Does it help with the
> problem of getting in touch with a server behind a NAT gateway?

Somewhat easier - many common NAT implementations will, upon seeing an
outbound UDP packet, set up a temporary forward from the originating
port to the machine behind the NAT.

-Jack