Re: [GD-General] Adventures in P2P

[Tom H. <to...@3d...>]

At 04:25 PM 1/24/2003, you wrote:
>There seems to be a lot of information on true Client/Server architectures 
>on the net, but no tmuch devoted to P2P, which is a shame really as I'd 
>imagine with most PS2Online/Xbox Live games they take the P2P approach.

Probably the biggest problem with P2P these days is that many (most?) of 
the clients are behind NATs and therefore can't act as servers without 
configuring their NAT to support port forwarding of the ports your game 
uses. This is beyond a great many end users and ends up generating a lot of 
support headaches.

I don't know how true this is of consoles, though my own PS/2 is behind a 
NAT ;)

Tom