TOX – A New Kind of Instant Messaging

Re:TOX – A New Kind of Instant Messaging by Jaruzel on Friday October 07, 2016 @05:12AM (#12659197)

Please forgive my ignorance, but it talks a lot about peer-to-peer conversations - how would that work if the peers are behind NATs or Proxies?

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Re:TOX – A New Kind of Instant Messaging by iphy on Friday October 07, 2016 @08:20AM (#12660037)

That works with UDP hole punching (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDP_hole_punching), and there is a branch with uPNP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Play) support. We still need to review that code carefully before accepting it into master.

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Re:TOX – A New Kind of Instant Messaging by tombert on Friday October 07, 2016 @08:21AM (#12660046)

I'm reasonably sure it does a UDP hole punch to do it.

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Re:TOX – A New Kind of Instant Messaging by dijit on Friday October 07, 2016 @06:11AM (#12659444)

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