>On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Randell Jesup <[email protected]> wrote: >> Right now we're looking at options for the reliable streams, which >> effectively will need to run over UDP/DTLS > >Why not TCP/TLS? Isn't putting reliability on top of UDP going to be >less firewall-traversing than using TCP for reliability?
TCP doesn't work directly between browsers behind firewalls in general. And the media streams need to be UDP-based if at all possible. UDP/DTLS can be made to work behind most firewall combinations (not symmetric-NAT at both ends, though - in that case you need a TURN server to relay media). TCP would require users to open port-forwards in their firewalls by hand or use the DMZ (shudder). -- Randell Jesup, Mozilla Corp remove ".news" for personal email _______________________________________________ dev-tech-network mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-network
