[jdev] Re: help needed to implement a P2P Chat Client

[Hal Rottenberg]

On 8/28/06, Ravi <ravikapoor101 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Point duly noted. I suggested 80 as many firewalls are flexible with
> port 80. This will result in more P2P connections than using any other
> port.

This only works when you have simple ACL-based stateless firewalls.
An application-layer firewall will look at your packets, see that they
are not HTTP, and silently drop them.  A stateful firewall will of
course not let you poke a hole inward until a connection has first
been made outward.  Since this could easily be the problem on the
other side as well...  Not even a $30 home router would let in port 80
"unsolicited" unless the user was running a web server or something,
and if every user were savvy enough to poke the holes in their own
firewalls we wouldn't be having this discussion!

> Yes I agree that there is lot of complexity with P2P chat. Since
> audio/video applications have to solve these problems anyway, I was
> hoping to get a free ride. I think those days have yet not arrived.

All I can say is good luck.  :)

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