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ricardobeat on July 1, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: TCP simultaneous open and peer to peer networking

Isn't this called "NAT punching", and generally used by games and other sw to establish peer-to-peer connections?

DennisP on July 1, 2013 [–]

That's usually UDP. With this method, you "get all of the utility [TCP] provides without trying to reproduce it over UDP."

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