Firewalls are going to impede this from being used for widespread p2p apps. Is t...

mburns · on Oct 9, 2012

http://www.webrtc.org/faq#TOC-Why-should-I-use-WebRTC-

pygy_ · on Oct 9, 2012

http://samy.pl/pwnat/ allows to establish a bidirectional connection between two machines behind NATs, but one of them must know the IP of the other's NAT, so this still requires a peer discovery system.

Also, I don't know if Chrome's socket API is sufficiently low level to craft ICMP packets. If I understand properly, it only offers a TCP socket.

kinlan · on Oct 9, 2012

We can't do ICMP. Only TCP and UDP

est · on Oct 10, 2012

As a matter of fact you don't need socket API or webRTC or whatsoever, Chrome has established an XMPP and jingle p2p connection for sync bookmarks, etc. It's not open API for Javascript yet, but I defintely see the potential.

kinlan · on Oct 9, 2012

How do apps like bit torrent do it today?

mechaandroid · on Oct 9, 2012

  Universal Plug and Play
  Manual Rule Adding
  Third Party Server