Re: [Gaim-devel] STUNT integration

[Ethan B. <ebl...@cs...>]

Haig Didizian spake unto us the following wisdom:
> Is anybody working on integrating STUNT (Simple Traversal of UDP Through
> NATs and TCP) into Gaim? I'm tired of not being able to connect to
> another client directly when we're both behind NATing firewalls, and it
> looks like the STUNT process would circumvent this problem.
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> If nobody's working on it, and if it makes sense, a friend & I were
> thinking about starting the implementation...

The only trouble with that is that none of the major services use UDP
for their communication. It's all well and good to be able to *pass*
UDP, but if you can't do anything with it once it's there...

Ethan

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