GSoC 2015 to overcome NAT limitations?

[str4d]

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David Stainton wrote:
> Hi Lukas,
> 
> I'm very interested to see what the tahoe-devs say to this idea of
>  participating in GSoC.
> 
> With regards to NAT... it seems that they decided a while back that
> this problem was outside the scope of what Tahoe-LAFS should 
> solve... but maybe they are interested? I can tell you that there 
> are various people such as myself who use Tahoe-LAFS with Tor and 
> Tor hidden services... we therefore get NAT penetration for free.
> I don't know much about I2p but I think they may have NAT
> penetration as well.

Yes, we do have NAT penetration if UDP is enabled.

str4d

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> David
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Lukas Pirl 
> <tahoe-dev at lukas-pirl.de> wrote:
>> Hello Tahoe-People!
>> 
>> What if I'd be interested in contributing to Tahoe-LAFS in the 
>> context of this year's Google Summer of Code¹?
>> 
>> What is interesting for me is the firewall/NAT/hole punching 
>> topic. From what I recognize, running Tahoe behind some NAT is 
>> relatively popular (e.g. at home). From my own experiences, I
>> can say that the peer-to-peer idea is somewhat destroyed if one
>> runs most of the nodes behind a NAT.
>> 
>> Well, there are five days left for you as an organization to 
>> apply for this year's Summer of Code. Tahoe can definitely 
>> profit!
>> 
>> Further, I have a (early) question about the mentoring. Do you 
>> want the mentor to be a Tahoe core developer (what definitely 
>> would make perfect sense) or am I supposed/can I ask one of my 
>> folks in preference? And if so, is it sufficient for mentors to 
>> be wizards in Python and to have joined the GSoC already or 
>> should they have made contributions to Tahoe already?
>> 
>> I'd be happy to hear from you!
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> 
>> Lukas
>> 
>> ¹ https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015 
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