On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 08:19:01PM -0400, Anthony de Boer via talk wrote: > Might be interesting to do some traffic analysis and find out what it > actually does. > > Most folk are behind a NAT device of some description or other, > purporting to only allow outbound connections. But it turns out that if > at least one end is behind a really cheap NAT device, it's possible to > trick it into thinking an inbound connection is outbound and get a > session going. See Wikipedia on NAT Traversal and Hole Punching. Linux > and BSD NAT implementations are too smart to fall for this, though, and > denizens of this list might just have a leaning toward Linux devices. > > There's a chance it would fall back to going via a public server if it > can't open traversal between a pair of endpoints.
They document it here: https://jami.net/establishing-peer-to-peer-connections-with-jami/ Seems if possible they do direct, using upnp to request a port if needed and possible, otherwise they use TURN relay servers. -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk